note 102084 added to install.unix.commandline

Getting php-cgi to work as CGI in my home-grown HTTP server took some experimentation. (The error messages were not helpful, to put it mildly. And a lot of web searches returned results about how to configure Apache. For me php.exe from the command line worked easily, so it was frustrating to feel like I was always so close.) After some lengthy experimentation, I got it to work recently. exec php-cgi.exe with the environment as follows for PHP 5.3. (Programming your own http server requires getting stdin and stdout to work properly in addition, but I don't need to describe that here.) CONTENT_LENGTH=0 CONTENT_TYPE=application/x-www-form-urlencoded DOCUMENT_ROOT=/pubwww QUERY_STRING=op=ini&d=12345 REDIRECT_STATUS=200 REQUEST_METHOD=GET REQUEST_URI=/inbox/ini-20110124.php SCRIPT_FILENAME=c:/pubwww/inbox/ini-20110124.php SCRIPT_NAME=/inbox/ini-20110124.php SERVER_NAME=localhost SERVER_PROTOCOL=HTTP/1.0 SERVER_SOFTWARE=hserve 20040610 SystemRoot=C:\WINDOWS (SystemRoot is needed to keep PDO ODBC happy on Windows.) Another tip for Windows users: ^ is the escape character to set an environment variable with SET. E.g. set QUERY_STRING=op=ini^&d=12345 If your scripts need further CGI environment variables, you should set them also, but PHP will start and run the script with these. ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 208.111.222.188 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.unix.commandline.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/102084 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102084/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102084/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102084/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102084/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102084/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102084/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102084 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/102084 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php