PHP 4.0 Bug #5679 Updated: PHP dies when call from Apache/CGI

ID: 5679 User Update by: werner.stegbauer@de.abb.com Status: Open Bug Type: Reproduceable crash Description: PHP dies when call from Apache/CGI Hi there, I have some more info to my problem above. I tried php3 instead of php4 in a similar environment as above and I got another reaction: I got an error message 'No input file specified'. I tried thousand things to get rid of this until I did the following: I defined in a DOS Console exactly the same environment variables as those passed to PHP3 when called from my WEB Server (Apache). Et voila: I got 'No input file specified' By reducing all variables I finally found the bad guy: SERVER_NAME. If this one is set, PHP3 does not work anymore. So everybody is welcome to try these steps: 1: Download php3 to any directory 2: cd to this directory and issue php -v. You will get: 3.0.16 3: set variable SERVER_NAME to any value (I used 'lisa', who is my daughter) and issue 'php -v' again and you will see: > set SERVER_NAME=lisa > php -v X-Powered-By: PHP/3.0.16 Content-type: text/html <br> <b>Fatal error</b>: Unable to open -v in <b>-</b> on line <b>0</b><br> No input file specified. So we have reproduced the CGI binary behaviour in a DOS Console. Unfortunately it does not help to unset SERVER_NAME in a Batch CGI script before calling PHP3 - same effect (i.e. 'No input file specified'). Further systematic work along the lines outlined above found finally the bad guy: It is the variable SCRIPT_FILENAME, unsetting this finally made PHP3 as CGI binary work on NT. Summarizing everything, I have now PHP3 as CGI binary on NT with apache working as follows: 1: Define in an HTML-Form as CGI-ACTION an NT batchfile, say od.bat. 2: od.bat containes these lines @echo off set SCRIPT_FILENAME= c:\primos\php3\php.exe odbc_books.php3 3: PHP3 comes up nicely and processes odbc_books.php3 4: If you omit the line 'set SCRIPT_FILENAME=' you will see the familar 'No input file specified'. Going back to PHP4 with this technique, I was only partially 'successful': Setting up the environment variables in a DOS Console as above will ALSO crash PHP4 (OleMainThreadWndName: .. 0x1007d14e ..), but I did not succeed in unsetting the environment variables in the CGI batch file as above - PHP4 is still crashing. Feedback wellcome, Werner Full Bug description available at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=5679