Apache doesn't perform environment expansion from the core distribution.

Look at mod_macro, see if anyone's ported this to apache 2.x for your
purposes.  Portable syntax is '$SystemRoot' (or '$(SystemRoot)' - either
is sans ' tic marks in actual use.)

s_i@[...].fr wrote:
>  Tx for your answer. I actually tried this solution before with %tmp% window env variable, 
but did not work, nor with %systemroot". I tried to do that for the directive:
>  PidFile %temp%/apache.pid
>  
>  Error message i get is:
>  "fopen: no such file or directory
>  Apache.exe: could not log pid to file /apache/%systemroot%/temp"
>  
>  Major problem:
>  1. "/apache" is prepended which i do not want, therefore the full path is wrongly interpre
ted
>  
>  If any answer to that, thanks to let me know.
>  
>  Regards,
>  Sébastien
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>  From      : <Oliver.Schaudt@[...].de>
>  To          : <users@[...].org>
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>  Date      : Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:09:12 +0100
>  Subject : RE: [users@httpd] OS Env variables - TMP
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>  
>  On attempt on Windows Systems 
>   %SystemRoot%\temp
>  
>  Greets 
>  Oliver
>  
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>  Von: s_i@[...].fr [mailto:s_i@[...].fr]
>  Gesendet: Di 28.02.2006 11:29
>  An: users
>  Betreff: [users@httpd] OS Env variables - TMP
>   
>  Hello,
>  
>  In my attempt to ship Apache as a standlone server on a CD-ROM to run a Web-based applicat
ion, I would need to access my OS environment variables from httpd.conf, since i would like 
to access TEMP directory on any computer (at least Windows-based computers). Any idea how to
 achieve that?
>  Thanks for your help
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