{"id":40,"date":"2025-01-16T23:58:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T04:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.realmofespionage.xyz\/?p=40"},"modified":"2026-01-12T04:08:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:08:25","slug":"dont-casually-mess-with-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.realmofespionage.xyz\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t casually mess with PATH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I like automating, and like adding folders to PATH, There&#8217;s SET, SETX, and \/M that I&#8217;ve messed with over the years casually, but when setting up freenginx I randomly found my user PATH had only one folder in GUI, vs the list I was expecting. Turns out my last messings with SETX wiped out all existing folders in PATH and replaced it the single folder I specified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Windows is cool about running no-problem with very broken user PATHs so my webserver has been running for a few days like this :p<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For future installs, I&#8217;ll likely stick to setting PATHs by-hand from GUI for a bit until I start relying on more of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like automating, and like adding folders to PATH, There&#8217;s SET, SETX, and \/M that I&#8217;ve messed with over the years casually, but when setting up freenginx I randomly found my user PATH had only one folder in GUI, vs the list I was expecting. Turns out my last messings with SETX wiped out all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-os"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.realmofespionage.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.realmofespionage.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.realmofespionage.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.realmofespionage.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.realmofespionage.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.realmofespionage.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"https:\/\/blog.realmofespionage.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.realmofespionage.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.realmofespionage.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.realmofespionage.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}