Problem executing a perl script from PHP

[blunose2]

I am running PHP on a windows 2000 server with IIS 5.0. I am trying to execute a perl script from PHP with no luck. I'm calling the perl as follows.

passthru("perl c:\inetpub\wwwroot\cgi-bin\restart.pl c:\inetpub\wwwroot\cgi-bin\output.txt ", $int);
echo $int;

This works fine from the command line but does nothing when I try to execute from PHP.

Any help is appreciated.

[[deleted]]

Does PHP know where to find PERL?
Have you tried telling PHP where PERL is located exactly?
passthru("c:\location\of\perl c:\location\of\script.pl");

[blunose2]

Thanks for your help. I actually found out that when using Windows 2000 and IIS 5.0 if you have annymous user access to your web site checked you can not run scripts on the web server. So you have to change the annonymous user to a valid user and password.