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setting iwarea env variable

brizrobbo

This maybe really obvious, but it is eluding me....

I'm just going through a process of setting up TS 6.7.1 on a Solaris machine. It is successfully installed and running and now I am configuring (attempting to at least) similar to our current TS 6.5 SP3 installation.

The problem: In our TS 6.5 SP3 installation, TeamSite somehow sets a 'IWAREA' environment variable. We have various PHP scripts which use this to determine if we are previewing from within TeamSite or not (in order to provide absolute paths for loading libraries). However, in the new "fresh" 6.7.1 install, I'm not able to access this environment variable.

Can anyone tell me how TeamSite sets this ENV variable (and others like it)? I've been digging and digging and can't seem to find any doco about it.

Thanks.

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kaalraa

This maybe really obvious, but it is eluding me....

I'm just going through a process of setting up TS 6.7.1 on a Solaris machine. It is successfully installed and running and now I am configuring (attempting to at least) similar to our current TS 6.5 SP3 installation.

The problem: In our TS 6.5 SP3 installation, TeamSite somehow sets a 'IWAREA' environment variable. We have various PHP scripts which use this to determine if we are previewing from within TeamSite or not (in order to provide absolute paths for loading libraries). However, in the new "fresh" 6.7.1 install, I'm not able to access this environment variable.

Can anyone tell me how TeamSite sets this ENV variable (and others like it)? I've been digging and digging and can't seem to find any doco about it.

Thanks.

You can use the following:

$ENV{'IW_WORKAREA'};

It will provide you the complete path with server name, you need to strip it off as required.

brizrobbo

You can use the following:

$ENV{'IW_WORKAREA'};

It will provide you the complete path with server name, you need to strip it off as required.

This doesn't seem to work either. I can't see any of these things if I print the ENV variables off using Perl or PHP.

In PHP, I am using something like:

$wa = $_SERVER["iwarea"];

(this is how it looks in my old TS 6.5 SP 3 machine)

or:

$wa = $_SERVER["IW_WORKAREA"];

Neither produce any output.

Interestingly, I can get output from:

$_COOKIE["IWPROXY_PATHTRACK"]

Is it during the proxying process that these variables get set? I am using the OOTB

iw_ts_rewrite_module

not

mod_rewrite

(although I have seen some posts about that!).

kaalraa

This doesn't seem to work either. I can't see any of these things if I print the ENV variables off using Perl or PHP.

In PHP, I am using something like:
$wa = $_SERVER["iwarea"];
(this is how it looks in my old TS 6.5 SP 3 machine)

or:
$wa = $_SERVER["IW_WORKAREA"];

Neither produce any output.

Interestingly, I can get output from:
$_COOKIE["IWPROXY_PATHTRACK"]

Is it during the proxying process that these variables get set? I am using the OOTB
iw_ts_rewrite_module
not
mod_rewrite
(although I have seen some posts about that!).

Its strange... might be you need to file a support ticket with Interwoven in order to find out the hidden/invisible env variable.

Adam Stoller

This maybe really obvious, but it is eluding me....

I'm just going through a process of setting up TS 6.7.1 on a Solaris machine. It is successfully installed and running and now I am configuring (attempting to at least) similar to our current TS 6.5 SP3 installation.

The problem: In our TS 6.5 SP3 installation, TeamSite somehow sets a 'IWAREA' environment variable. We have various PHP scripts which use this to determine if we are previewing from within TeamSite or not (in order to provide absolute paths for loading libraries). However, in the new "fresh" 6.7.1 install, I'm not able to access this environment variable.

Can anyone tell me how TeamSite sets this ENV variable (and others like it)? I've been digging and digging and can't seem to find any doco about it.

Thanks.

"IWAREA" is, I believe, not a standard Interwoven environment variable - chances are this information was set as a customization in something like the iwwebd's httpd.conf.template or something like that.

I'd suggest searching your existing implementation (IWHOME/*) thoroughly to find where this variable was set.

brizrobbo

As suggested, I searched through the current implementation and found the "iwarea" ENV variable being set in:

<iw-home>etc/httpd/iw_ts_rewrite_via_mod_rewrite.conf

Interestingly, this file is exactly the same in the 6.5 SP3 implementation as it is in the OOTB 6.7.1 SP 1 implementation. This means that it is unaltered in both installations. What is different is that the customer web server in the 6.5 SP3 implementation is using mod_rewrite whereas the 6.7.1 SP1 implementation is not.

This particular problem is not a killer for me as I can get around it using another method AND I've got a principle of trying to keep this new installation as OOTB as I can. However, is there any comment/opinions about using mod_rewrite as opposed to the IWOV supplied iw_ts_rewrite_module?