Setting $_ENV (fka $HTTP_ENV_VARS) with nginx/php-fpm

Question

What is the equivalent of setenv in a apache environment? With apache I am able to for example set the env \"SOMEENV\" and access it in php via $_ENV[\'SOMEENV\'] - but I have n

Answer 1

nginx doesn't have a way of affecting php's environment, since it doesn't embed the php interpreter into its process. It passes parameters to php through fastcgi_param directives. You can just add one where you set the rest of your params and access it via $_SERVER:

location ~ \.php$ {
  include fastcgi_params;
  fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
  fastcgi_param SOMEENV test;
  fastcgi_pass php;
}