Apache SetEnvIf trouble

Question

I have the following in my .htaccess file:

SetEnvIf Host "^example\.com$" myvar=1
<IfDefine myvar>
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index2.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
</IfDefine>

As far as I can tell, this should be working properly. However, "myvar" does not appear to get defined when I visit from example.com. I know that I have the mod_setenvif.c enabled (I've verified with an <IfModule> block).

Any ideas why "myvar" isn't getting defined?

Answer 1

This is really a ServerFault question, but anyway: IfDefine doesn't test environment variables, it tests the configuration options that were passed to Apache at startup. So for example, if you ran

apache2 -D MYVAR

then a section

<IfDefine MYVAR>
    ...
</IfDefine>

would get executed.

I'm not sure if there's any Apache configuration directive that acts as a conditional for environment variables, like you're looking for.