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18 05 2007

Switch configurations for a PHP script based on the virtual host, taking into account the console and proxies

Posted by: Ori Pekelman in configuration, php

Sometimes (often) you would want your script to have different configurations based on the environment in which it runs (dev, test, prod). Sometimes the same script may even be run from the console and you really want to have a different configuration for that. Now you may run into some trouble using just the $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"] variable. Even more so if you are running behind an proxy (such as mod_proxy for apache).

Here is a small snippet that will help you cover almost every instance... and tell you what is the execution context of the script so you can change the db setup, turn on or off the debugging etc...

Note that in this case the $vhost here may very well contain a list of hosts separated by commas.

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PHP:
  1. if ((isset($_SERVER["SESSIONNAME"]) && $_SERVER["SESSIONNAME"] =="Console") || (isset ($_SERVER["TERM"])))
  2. {
  3.     $vhost="console";
  4. } else
  5.     {
  6.     if (isset($_SERVER["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_HOST"])){$vhost=$_SERVER["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_HOST"];}
  7.         else
  8.             {
  9.             if (isset ($_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"])) $vhost = $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"];
  10.                 else 
  11.             $vhost = $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"];
  12.             }
  13.     }
  14. switch($vhost){
  15.     case 'myproductionhost.com':
  16.         //setup configuration   
  17.     break;
  18.     case 'myproductionhost.com, someotherhostusingmodproxy.com':
  19.         //setup configuration
  20.     break;
  21.     case 'mytesthost.com':
  22.         //setup configuration
  23.     break;
  24.     case 'console':
  25.         //setup configuration
  26.     break;
  27.     case 'locahost':
  28.         //setup configuration
  29.     break;
  30.     }

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3 Responses to “Switch configurations for a PHP script based on the virtual host, taking into account the console and proxies”

  1. J.Ducastel Says:
    May 18th, 2007 at 6:42 pm

    May be useful indeed :)

    I’ll have to implement environment-driven config switching for webappkit components. One more thing on the todo list.

  2. Dave Says:
    May 18th, 2007 at 10:29 pm

    That is quite useful actially. Thank you.

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