diff --git a/t/lib-httpd.sh b/t/lib-httpd.sh
index 094d49089389c9e8dbf8c561ccc133065552fc81..d773542680d9f3c3d77e52871877560a9e545a26 100644
--- a/t/lib-httpd.sh
+++ b/t/lib-httpd.sh
@@ -43,6 +43,10 @@ TEST_PATH="$TEST_DIRECTORY"/lib-httpd
HTTPD_ROOT_PATH="$PWD"/httpd
HTTPD_DOCUMENT_ROOT_PATH=$HTTPD_ROOT_PATH/www
+# hack to suppress apache PassEnv warnings
+GIT_VALGRIND=$GIT_VALGRIND; export GIT_VALGRIND
+GIT_VALGRIND_OPTIONS=$GIT_VALGRIND_OPTIONS; export GIT_VALGRIND_OPTIONS
+
if ! test -x "$LIB_HTTPD_PATH"
then
skip_all="skipping test, no web server found at '$LIB_HTTPD_PATH'"
diff --git a/t/lib-httpd/apache.conf b/t/lib-httpd/apache.conf
index de3762e24762692733f7a42f58b139e279b29f3d..36b1596a10c04b5c5c095e96e8e247463eb3f022 100644
--- a/t/lib-httpd/apache.conf
+++ b/t/lib-httpd/apache.conf
@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ ErrorLog error.log
+PassEnv GIT_VALGRIND
+PassEnv GIT_VALGRIND_OPTIONS
+
Alias /dumb/ www/
Alias /auth/ www/auth/
@@ -62,7 +65,7 @@ ScriptAlias /smart/ ${GIT_EXEC_PATH}/git-http-backend/
ScriptAlias /smart_noexport/ ${GIT_EXEC_PATH}/git-http-backend/
ScriptAlias /smart_custom_env/ ${GIT_EXEC_PATH}/git-http-backend/
- Options None
+ Options FollowSymlinks
Options ExecCGI