exec()/system() and script problem in PhP/Apache !

[Anon]

Hi there ...

I running Windows 98SE, Apache/1.3.12
and php-4.0.2-Win32 !!

My problem is that when i run a script like this, the result will output'ed in my DOS-Prompt (the same as Apache !) and NOT !! in my browser .. !!??

How can i make my browser my default output-thing ?? I have tryed to uninstall and install it all again ... didnt work !!!

PLz HELP ME ... Need that BIG TIME !!!!

<?php
system("ping 127.0.0.1", $temp);
$a=0;
while ($a < sizeof($temp))
{
printf("%s",$temp[$a]);
echo("<br>");
$a++;
}
?>

Martin D
[e-mail]

I have tryed system() .. the same result

[Anon]

<?php

$m = @system("ping 127.0.0.1 -w5 > p.txt");

$fp = fopen("p.txt","r+t");

while( !feof($fp) )
{
	$s = fgets($fp,200);

	echo "<br>" . htmlentities($s);
}

fclose($fp);

?>

[Anon]

yes .. but what if more people access
the same scripts (at the same time), then
the file would reading/writing would
f... up.

I have tryed the same script on my w2kserver under IIS5.0 here are the results :

Warning: Unable to fork [ping 127.0.0.1] in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\php\perl\test.php on line 6

Line 6 is : exec("ping 127.0.0.1");

Just dont know what to do anymore 😉

Martin
[e-mail]

[Anon]

Well... The fork thing happens because you are running PHP as ISAPI. You should run as CGI instead.

I have a similar problem... I can do the exec/system/passthru, but the output to the browser is 0 bytes lenght. I've set the appropriate header (application/pdf), but the html to pdf converter runs and don't send anything to the browser.

Any help?

Ricardo

[Anon]

Hi there ... i also read about the fork-thing and all this was a bug in Php 😉

but how do i do this ??? :

You should run as CGI instead.

Is there any line in httpd.conf i could
insert or ???

Martin D
[e-mail]

[Anon]

This one workt for me!

<?
exec("ping 127.0.0.1 > test.txt");
// get contents of a file into a string
$filename = "test.txt";
$fd = fopen ($filename, "r");
$contents = fread ($fd, filesize ($filename));

fclose ($fd);

echo $contents;

?>

well good luck
(sorry if this looks stoopid, but this is the second day I'm trying PHP)

[Anon]

actually i am running the cgi but still i still have the 'fork' error anytime i try to exec() or system()

win2k/iis5
php 4.0.6

[Anon]

same problem... it's not possible to use exec(), system() etc... from php-script

php4
apache 1.3

Gernot

[makeshift]

Haha, yea this pissed me off and took me about 30 minutes fumbling thru the internet to figure out.

The Problem
PHP says : unable to fork [buncha error crap] on line ###

PHP needs access to cmd.exe located in th %WINDOWS%SYSTEM32% directory. Most peopld would go, oh sh1t! I can't give my webusers access to that!

The Solution
1. Copy and Paste cmd.exe into the php.exe directory (cant do it as an isapi cause you need the CGI). DO NOT put it in the directory as your scripts. It needs to be in the same one as the php.exe executable.

2. Set permissions for the default IIS user.. i think its called "IUSR_%LOCALCOMPUTERNAME%"change (or if that doesnt work full control). Open properties for the /php/ folder, select security or sharing, share the thing, and select permissions. Just do a search for all the users on the localcomputer. Find the default IIS user, and give them POWER.

3. Kick yourself for ever thinking that someone would actually answer such an obscure question in a forum until 9324 days later.

No credit to me, i found this on the extended php manual with all those funny replys from developers appended to it. I suggest you download it.

• Drew

[LordShryku]

Bump much lately?