Re: Unable to execute c++ .exe file from php
| From: | Ernest E Vogelsinger | Date: | Fri, 08 Nov 2002 14:54:13 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Unable to execute c++ .exe file from php | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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At 15:30 08.11.2002, Ladan Pickering spoke out and said:
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>I am unable to execute my c++ program from within PHP when it runs as a
>cgi in Apache.
>I am able to run:
>
>$cmd="dir c:\abc"
>system ($cmd, $errCode);
>
>and see the content of the directory, but I don't seem to
>be able to run a simple hello.exe (c++) file.
>
>$cmd = "c:\abc\hello.exe";
>system ($cmd, $errCode);
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I think you need to either escape the backslash (like c:\\abc\\hello.exe),
or simply use forward slashes (as c:/abc/hello.exe).
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>O Ernest E. Vogelsinger
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