Zend Framework 1.8+: How to automatically set the application environment?

I have been developing an application locally with an application environment set开发者_运维技巧ting of development. I think this is being set in the .htaccess file.

Then, I have been deploying new versions to the production server.

I don't want to have to manually change the application environment, by hand, every time I deploy a new version.

How should I do this, so I can set the application environment variable automatically (maybe based on the location that it's being hosted? i.e. myapp.com vs. myapp.local)?

You can do this in the either in the server config, virtual host, directory or .htaccess through

 SetEnv SPECIAL_PATH /foo/bin

Ex.

<VirtualHost host1>
SetEnv FOO bar1
...
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost host2>
SetEnv FOO bar2
...
</VirtualHost>

For more readings

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_env.html#setenv

http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/linux/apache/ch04_06.htm

    if (false !== stripos($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'], 'yourdomain.tld')) {
        $_ENV['APPLICATION_ENV'] = $_SERVER['APPLICATION_ENV'] = 'production';
    }

at the top of index.php

I do something like SM, but slight different:

$env = 'development';

if ('www.my-host-name.com' == $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] || 'my-server-name' == exec('hostname')) {
    $env = 'production';
}

defined('APPLICATION_ENVIRONMENT') or define('APPLICATION_ENVIRONMENT', $env);
unset($env);

I use my server hostname to determine the environment. I also use my server name because some scripts are run from a cron job and I need this to do the tests.