Where can I set environment variables that crontab will use?

Question

I have a crontab running every hour. The user running it has environment variabless in the .bash_profile that work when the user runs the job from the terminal,

Answer 1

For me I had to set the environment variable for a php application. I resloved it by adding the following code to my crontab.

$ sudo  crontab -e

crontab:

ENVIRONMENT_VAR=production

* * * * * /home/deploy/my_app/cron/cron.doSomethingWonderful.php

and inside doSomethingWonderful.php I could get the environment value with:

 "production"

I hope this helps!