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, me again, some more comments on my problem I have now something like the ultimate solution/workaround to the 'No input file specified' problem! I have done my homework and studied a little bit of PHP3 source code. I found that the environment variables PATH_INFO and PATH_TRANSLATED play an important role when it comes to the above error situation. In addition, I read a little CGI docu and found that Apache does not use these variables. I decided to define these two variables before starting php and it worked out perfectly - on all plattforms and with PHP3 and PHP4. So the wellknown PHP4 bug 'OleMainThreadWndName: .. 0x1007d14e' also dissapeared and PHP4 on NT runs perfectly. I summarize my workaround: 1: Define in an HTML-Form as CGI-ACTION an NT batchfile, say od.bat. 2: od.bat containes these lines: @echo off set PATH_INFO=c:\apache\cgi-bin (i.e. your cgi-bin path) set PATH_TRANSLATE=od.php3 (i.e. your cgi-bin script) c:\primos\php3\php.exe (i.e. NO input file) 3: PHP3 comes up nicely and processes od.php3 If you omit the lines 'set PATH_..=' you will see the familar 'No input file specified' from PHP3 and the accessvio from PHP4. On UNIX you write a script and use setenv/export for 'set ..'. That was it, Werner Full Bug description available at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=5679