Posted by Daniel Klein on 12/23/07 14:26

On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 13:55:28 +0100, "Janwillem Borleffs"
<jw@jwscripts.com> wrote:

>Daniel Klein wrote:
>> All I get in a web browser is:
>>
>> popen test...
>>
>> What am I missing?
>>
>
>It's possible that the program only executes from a shell. In this case you
>should start popen with a command shell (cmd, r+w) and call your program
>from there.

Thanks for the suggestion. I changed the code to:

$fp = popen('C:\\windows\\system32\\cmd.exe /c
C:\\home\\bin\\hw.exe', 'r+w');

but this made no difference; iow it works from a command prompt but
not in a web browser (I tried it with IE, Firefox and Opera).

I might add that I made sure that permissions on the executable were
wide open eg: full Full Control to 'Everyone'.

Does anyone out there have popen (or proc_open) working on
Windows/IIS?

If I cannot get this working then my next step will be to try it with
Apache; trouble is that I have not ever used it so it will certainly
be a learning experience for me. However, I would really like to get
it working with IIS, if at all possible.

Daniel Klein

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