exec or system, in need of advice

[mrvanx]

Hi people, ive got a web server running at my home and am using exec() to execute a .bat file which in turn runs a program called 'magic', it send s magic packet to one of the pcs in my house and turns them on with the wake-on-lan capability they have. When it comes to shutting them down i want to use psshutdown.exe to do it, now the .bat file runs no problem when i physically double click it on the webserver, but if i try to run it via my webpage (using the exec() command) it doesnt run?!

Have searched already for this on this forum but not found what im after.

EDIT:: figured you may want the environment im running also lol: WinXP pro(SP2), Apache 2.0, php 5, mysql 4.1.

[gardnc]

Just a guess, but the web sever user, probably apache, doesn't have permission to execute that code or execute software in the folder where it is located. If this is an externally accessible web server you probably would rather not let it do that. If this is and will always remain an internal web server you may try moving the executable to your cgi-bin folder.