Re: unable to run lynx from exec or passthru

Most likely, lynx is not in the PATH of the user that the webserver is running as, and may not have permission, if it was. Try telneting in and finding the absolute pathname to lynx, and user that in your exec statement and see what happens. Might also help if you redirected stderr to a file so you could read the error that it encounters when you try to exec lynx in a script. On 4/7/01 10:15 PM, "Junaid MAnsoor" <jdma79@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > > i have php as an apache mod. i want to exec lynx from php. but when i have > typed the following command > > exec("lynx http://mywebsite.com"); > > OR > passthru("lynx http://mywebsite.com"); > > > > > it simply does not show any output, just a blank page. I think its the prb > of permission. Please help me how can i configure it to work for me. > > Junaid Mansoor > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at > http://www.hotmail.com. >