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Auto detect internal/external development environment

Asked 2010-04-09T11:50:56.793
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We use the following function to auto detect if we are on a machine internally or on a live server and then choose the appropriate configs for various components:

function devIsLocal(){

    $res=false;

    $http_host=$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];

    if($http_host=='localhost')$res=true;
    if($http_host=='127.0.0.1')$res=true;
    if(substr($http_host,-4)=='.lan')$res=true;
    if(strpos($http_host, '.')===false)$res=true;

    return($res);

}

As you can see it only relies on the HTTP_HOST value.

Of course, if you use some sort of virtual host locally like example.com then the function will be tricked.

Are there any other ways to fool the function? and what other variables/places could we peek at to determine where we are?

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'127.0.0.1' == $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]

This will never evaluate as TRUE on your live system. :)

answered 2010-04-09T12:11:58.010
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Adding to Andy Shellam's answer..

If you are using mod_vhost_alias, or have various domains with the same (virtual) document root, you can set the variable dependent upon parameters, e.g.

SetEnvIf SERVER_ADDR x.x.x.x APPLICATION_ENV=development
SetEnvIf HTTP_HOST abc.example.com APPLICATION_ENV=development
answered 2010-04-09T12:33:28.430

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