PHP 4.0 Bug #8202: exec("java -cp classpath classname inputArgument"); has no effect

From: Lee.Seldon@infotech.monash.edu.au Operating system: WinNT 4, Service pack 6, IIS 4 PHP version: 4.0.3pl1 PHP Bug Type: *Function Specific Bug description: exec("java -cp classpath classname inputArgument"); has no effect The command prompt line java -cp .;C:\Java\bin;C:\Java\lib;C:\Java\lib\tools.jar;E:\Health_Info\HealthWebDirectory\Messages HTML_HL7translator E:\Health_Info\HealthWebDirectory\Messages\Discharge\Dis-2000-11-28-1.htm runs the java class HTML_HL7translator with input file Dis-2000-11-28-1.htm jdk1.3 is installed and works None of the commands in the following cause HTML_HL7translator to run: <?php $javaHL7 = exec("java -cp .;C:\Java\bin;C:\Java\lib;C:\Java\lib\tools.jar;E:\Health_Info\HealthWebDirectory\Messages HTML_HL7translator E:\Health_Info\HealthWebDirectory\Messages\Discharge\Dis-2000-11-28-1.htm"); echo "did exec\n"; passthru("java -cp .;C:\Java\bin;C:\Java\lib;C:\Java\lib\tools.jar;E:\Health_Info\HealthWebDirectory\Messages HTML_HL7translator E:\Health_Info\HealthWebDirectory\Messages\Discharge\Dis-2000-11-26-2.htm"); echo "did passthru\n"; $javaHL7s = system("java -cp .;C:\Java\bin;C:\Java\lib;C:\Java\lib\tools.jar;E:\Health_Info\HealthWebDirectory\Messages HTML_HL7translator E:\Health_Info\HealthWebDirectory\Messages\Discharge\Dis-2000-11-26-4.htm"); echo "did system()"; ?> [PHP] extracts ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ; Language Options ; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; engine = On ; Enable the PHP scripting language engine under Apache short_open_tag = On ; allow the <? tag. otherwise, only <?php and <script> tags are recognized. asp_tags = Off ; allow ASP-style <% %> tags precision = 14 ; number of significant digits displayed in floating point numbers y2k_compliance = Off ; whether to be year 2000 compliant (will cause problems with non y2k compliant browsers) output_buffering = Off ; Output buffering allows you to send header lines (including cookies) implicit_flush = Off ; Implicit flush tells PHP to tell the output layer to flush itself allow_call_time_pass_reference = On ; whether to enable the ability to force arguments to be safe_mode = Off safe_mode_exec_dir = safe_mode_allowed_env_vars = PHP_ ; Setting certain environment variables safe_mode_protected_env_vars = LD_LIBRARY_PATH ; This directive contains a comma- disable_functions = ; Colors for Syntax Highlighting mode. Anything that's acceptable in <font color=???> would work. highlight.string = #DD0000 highlight.comment = #FF8000 highlight.keyword = #007700 highlight.bg = #FFFFFF highlight.default = #0000BB highlight.html = #000000 ; Misc expose_php = On ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ; Resource Limits ; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; max_execution_time = 30 ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds memory_limit = 8M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (8MB) ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ; Error handling and logging ; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ; error_reporting is a bit-field. Or each number up to get desired error reporting level E_ALL - All errors and warnings error_reporting = E_ALL; display all errors, warnings and notices display_errors = Off ; Print out errors (as a part of the output) display_startup_errors = Off ; Even when display_errors is on, errors that occur during log_errors = On track_errors = Off ; Store the last error/warning message in $php_errormsg (boolean) error_log = E:\Health_Info\HealthWebDirectory\php_error.txt ; log errors to specified file warn_plus_overloading = Off ; warn if the + operator is used with strings ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ; Data Handling ; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ; Note - track_vars is ALWAYS enabled as of PHP 4.0.3 variables_order = "EGPCS" ; This directive describes the order in which PHP registers register_argc_argv = On ; This directive tells PHP whether to declare the argv&argc post_max_size = 8M ; Maximum size of POST data that PHP will accept. gpc_order = "GPC" ; Thi magic_quotes_gpc = On ; magic quotes for incoming GET/POST/Cookie data magic_quotes_runtime= Off ; magic quotes for runtime-gener magic_quotes_sybase = Off ; Use Sybase-style ma auto_prepend_file = auto_append_file = ; PHP's built-in default is text/html default_mimetype = "text/html" ;default_charset = "iso-8859-1" ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ; Paths and Directories ; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; include_path = ; UNIX: "/path1:/path2" Windows: "\path1;\path2" doc_root = ; the root of the php pages, used only if nonempty user_dir = ; the directory under which php opens the script using /~username, used only if nonempty extension_dir = ./ ; directory in which the loadable extensions (modules) reside enable_dl = On ; Whether or not to enable the dl() function. ; The dl() function does NOT properly work in multithreaded ; servers, such as IIS or Zeus, and is automatically disabled on them. ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ; File Uploads ; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; file_uploads = On ; Whether to allow HTTP file uploads upload_tmp_dir = C:\Program Files\Php4\uploadtemp ; temporary directory for HTTP uploaded files (will use system default if not specified) upload_max_filesize = 2M ; Maximum allowed size for uploaded files ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ; Dynamic Extensions ; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; extension=php_java.dll ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ; Module Settings ; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; [Syslog] define_syslog_variables = Off ; Whether or not to define the various s [mail function] SMTP = smtp.monash.edu.au ; for Win32 only sendmail_from = Lee.Seldon@infotech.monash.edu.au ; for Win32 only [Debugger] debugger.host = localhost debugger.port = 7869 debugger.enabled = False [Logging] [Java] java.class.path = extensions\jdk1.3\php_java.jar java.home = c:\java java.library = c:\java\jre\bin\hotspot\jvm.dll java.library.path = .\ [SQL] sql.safe_mode = Off [ODBC] uodbc.allow_persistent = On ; allow or prevent persistent links uodbc.check_persistent = On ; check that a connection is still validbefore reuse uodbc.max_persistent = -1 ; maximum number of persistent links. -1 means no limit uodbc.max_links = -1 ; maximum number of link uodbc.defaultlrl = 4096 ; Handling of LONG fields. Returns number of bytes uodbc.defaultbinmode = 1 ; Handling of binary data. 0 means passth [Session] session.save_handler = files ; handler used to store/retrieve data session.save_path = C:\Program Files\Php4\sessiondata ; argument pass session.use_cookies = 1 ; whether to use cookies session.name = PHPSESSID session.auto_start = 0 ; initialize session on request startup session.cookie_lifetime = 0 ; lifetime in seconds of cookie session.cookie_path = / ; the path the cookie is valid for session.cookie_domain = ; the domain the cookie is valid for session.serialize_handler = php ; handler used to serialize data session.gc_probability = 1 ; percentual probability that the session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440 ; after this number of seconds, stored session.referer_check = ; check HTTP Referer to invalidate session.entropy_length = 0 ; how many bytes to read from the file session.entropy_file = ; specified here to create the session id session.cache_limiter = nocache ; set to {nocache,private,public} to session.cache_expire = 180 ; document expires after n minutes session.use_trans_sid = 1 ; use transient sid support if enabled ; End: -- Edit Bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=8202&edit=1