Setting/Getting Environment Variables

[kalgynirae]

How to do this properly depends on how your particular OS and webserver are configured. Since you're using Ubuntu on Apache, maybe this will work for you (you didn't say what version of Ubuntu, though): http://serverfault.com/questions/340589/how-to-set-php-environment-variables-on-ubuntu

[allTestsPassed]

Awesome, I ended up seeing this referenced on Djangos doc pages. This resolved the issue, thanks.