Hi, my apache runs as a specific user. This user has access to only his home dir, and apache specific stuff like log files. Now, I would like to have this user know certain environmental settings (Variables) For example: export MY_APACHE_HOME="/usr/local/apache2" This is just one example. I would like to have this, so that I can access this variable from within a script. (Another example, in a Ruby script you can access to this variable by doing something such as puts ENV['MY_APACHE_HOME'] I am using some variables for ALL user accounts, these variables are mostly just there to simplify something. Nothing really important, but it makes things nicer to do stuff such as cd $MY_APACHE_HOME (again, this is just another example) Does anyone know where exactly I have to put those settings so that the apache user can use them, and so that certain scripts (like ruby scripts) can access to this variables? I tried to put them in the apache user /home/ dir inside .bashrc, but this doesnt seem to make any difference. (If it should, I probably made an error).