Re: Unable to execute c++ .exe file from php

My question is how do you know it's not running? If it really is a "hello world" application, where do you want the output to go? To the browser? That's pretty involved. Try making it write to a file and see if it contains any output after execution. Mike "Ernest E Vogelsinger" <ernest@vogelsinger.at> wrote in message news:5.1.1.6.2.20021108155320.03285f28@mail.vogelsinger.at... > At 15:30 08.11.2002, Ladan Pickering spoke out and said: > --------------------[snip]-------------------- > >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); > --------------------[snip]-------------------- > > I think you need to either escape the backslash (like c:\\abc\\hello.exe), > or simply use forward slashes (as c:/abc/hello.exe). > > > -- > >O Ernest E. Vogelsinger > (\) ICQ #13394035 > ^ http://www.vogelsinger.at/ >