Cannot call PHP from other application

faheem786

Hi,

I'm trying to access a php page in our own server (Win2k, Apache Web Server) from another application other than browser. The application uses a plugin which can call any urls and returns the result as html.

For normal html files and links from other php sites are working fine. But some settings on our servers has to be changed so that it allows to call the php script from other application other than normal browser

Pls help me how can I do this. I attach the error here

Thanks
Ahmad

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Security Alert! The PHP CGI cannot be accessed directly.

This PHP CGI binary was compiled with force-cgi-redirect enabled. This
means that a page will only be served up if the REDIRECT_STATUS CGI variable is
set, e.g. via an Apache Action directive.
For more information as to why this behaviour exists, see the (http://php.net/security.cgi-bin )manual page for CGI security.
For more information about changing this behaviour or re-enabling this webserver,
consult the installation file that came with this distribution, or visit
("http://php.net/install.windows") the manual page.

mmilano

it's not that your php page has to be accessed through a browser, it is that it has to be accessed through a web server.

the web server is what is telling it to run through the php processer, so it needs to be requested through that.

when you request the page from your browser, you usually use something like http://localhost/somepage.php

well any application will get the EXACT same result if you pull up http://localhost/somepage.php . at that point it doesn't matter if it is html, php, or whatever because the page has already been processed.

it seems to me you are trying to call the file locally or across the network without calling the [url]http://[/url] before it. is that it? maybe something like C:\somepage.php

what type of path are you using to call it? your web server doesn't care what application or browser is requesting the data usually.

faheem786

Thanks mmilano...

But I exactly use the same url to access the php page like

http://www.myserver/myfolder/somepage.php

Seems like this is is more specific with some settings in the ini file. Do I need to change anything in the php.ini file??

Thanks
Ahmad
Hong Kong