launch *.exe applications from Apache

[rortelli]

Hi all,

i'm running Apache 1.3.20 (with php as module & mySql) on WinXP pro.

i would like to launch *.exe applications from a web page. These applications are stocked on the cgi-bin folder of apache.

i've tries to launch them, but it doesn't work 🙁

i think that i have to modify the httpd.conf but i've not found informations about that on the web.

could someone help me?

thanx

bob

[mithril]

Any exe's you launch will be run on the server machine, not the end user's. This begs the question: "Why would you ever want to allow your website users to launch and execute exe's on your server?"

-geoff

[rortelli]

Thank you Geoff for your answer,

but i know, that if i launch anz *.exe applications will be run from the server machine. This is what i want. I'll launch an application from a iPaq.

now how can i do, what are the modifications that i have to do in the httpd.conf file? (on WinXP with Apache 1.3.22)

bob