Getting Started

It is very important, that people are informed in the Getting Started Doumentation, that somethimes the "SetEnv FLOW3_CONTEXT Development" Directive doesn't set the environment variables in PHP!

In case you're using an SUEXEC/FCGI PHP Version in Apache, SUEXEC wont pass FLOW3_CONTEXT to the fcgi script...
( Because the varible wasn't defined in "Safe-Vars" on SUEXEC compilation time. )
Since providers propably won't recompile SUEXEC with FLOW3_CONTEXT defined in "Safe-Vars", php won't receive the value SET with SetEnv in apache...

In this case i've found just 3 quick solutions to set the environment variable:

Solution 1: In the FCGI Starter Script:
It usually looks something like this:

#!/bin/sh
FLOW3_CONTEXT='Development'
export FLOW3_CONTEXT
PHPRC="/path/to/php5/conf/directory" 
export PHPRC
PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=5
export PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN
PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS=5000
export PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS
exec '/path/to/php5.3/bin/php-cgi'

Solution 2: Creating a prepend file in your php.ini
Create a prepend file that looks like this:

<?php
$_SERVER['FLOW3_CONTEXT']='Development';
?>

Finally, set the "auto_prepend_file = /path/to/your/prepend-file.php" option in your php.ini

Solution 3: Alter the Web/index.php file
Add the following line to the file after the "define" line:

$_SERVER['FLOW3_CONTEXT']='Development';

There might be other ways to set the environment variable, but this should be mentioned in the documentation.