PHP + Apache + Selenium: ApachePHP does not get environment vars

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Hi there,

after spending quite some time trying to get my selenium tests running on circleCI I am stuck at a point where I do not know any further:
I have some environment variables which store the credentials for the database. The PHPUnit tests have these _ENV variables and succeed. When starting the selenium tests and opening a page on localhost on selenium, my PHP framework displays an error message that it could not connect to the Database. The reason for this is that the _ENV database credentials seem not to be available for PHP “inside” Apache.

Is there a way that Apache Webserver uses these environment variables as well? See my config.yml below.

Best regards
Philipp

# PHP CircleCI 2.0 configuration file
#
# Check https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/language-php/ for more details
#
version: 2
jobs:
  build:
    docker:
      # specify the version you desire here
      - image: circleci/php:7.2-apache-browsers
        environment:
          DB_STRING:                  mysql:host=127.0.0.1;dbname=eoo_test
          DB_USER:                    root
          DB_PASSWORD:                test
      
      # Specify service dependencies here if necessary
      # CircleCI maintains a library of pre-built images
      # documented at https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/circleci-images/
      - image: circleci/mysql:5.7.24
        environment:
          MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: test
          MYSQL_DATABASE: eoo_test

    working_directory: ~/repo

    steps:
      - checkout
      
      #install php extensions needed
      - run: sudo apt install -y libpng-dev
      - run: sudo docker-php-ext-install gd
      - run: sudo apt install -y mysql-client
      - run: sudo docker-php-ext-install pdo_mysql
      - run: sudo docker-php-ext-enable pdo_mysql

      #config apache
      - run: sudo chmod 777 /etc/apache2/sites-enabled
      - run: sudo cp /home/circleci/repo/.circleci/example.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/eoo.conf
      - run: sudo a2ensite eoo
      - run: sudo service apache2 restart
      
      #selenium
      - run: mkdir test-reports
      - run:
          name: Download Selenium
          command: curl -O http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/3.5/selenium-server-standalone-3.5.3.jar
      - run:
          name: Start Selenium
          command: java -jar selenium-server-standalone-3.5.3.jar -log stdout
          Xvfb: 7055
          background: true

      #install composer dependecies
      - run: composer install -n --prefer-dist
        
      # run tests!
      - run:
          name: Run Unit tests
          command: vendor/bin/phpunit
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youre absolutely right, formatted it

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The first thing to check is to get an SSH session onto your post-fail build server, and do a set to ensure the variables are there.

If that is OK, then you may need to expose them in Apache with the correct Apache directive. Try PassEnv. This is a security feature to ensure that only system variables you want to make available are exposed.

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Hi,

thanks a lot for that quick answer The additional _ENV vars in gerneral are there, only Apache is lacking them. I var_dumped(_ENV) and in selenium echoed the content of the tag to get that output, only 8 or 9 Apache internal environment vars were set.
So i will look into PassEnv.

If there is some pre-existing image for PHP + Selenium, I could use that as well, I just started CircleCi and am not fixed to a certain image yet.

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