Re: shell_exec, batch files, and IIS on Windows

The user that runs the php script under iis (IUSER_<maschine name>) should have permissions to execute the cmd.exe file, the .bat file and all the commands included in the .bat file. - Frank > The manual entry for shell_exec has a comment that notes to execute .bat > files with shell_exec, you need to pass the command through cmd.exe with > the /c argument. I was wondering if anyone could share some insight on > why that is. > > I've pretty much verified that this is the case. I can't execute .bat > files at all from a Windows 2003 server running IIS. I can locally on > my development workstation (XP running Apache). I've tried passing the > command through cmd.exe on the server, but some of the commands in the > .bat file does not run properly when going through cmd.exe. > > I suspect that IIS is a key culprit, but I have nothing concrete. I'd > like to take a plausible theory to the IT guys before I request that > they install Apache on that box. > > Thanks for any insight anyone might have. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >