RE: [PHP-WIN] Re: Executing .exe files Issues

>| "Alice Wei" <ajwei@alumni.iu.edu> wrote in message >| news:SNT101-W180F682380DC32DBF85BF9F0CE0@phx.gbl... >| >| Hi, PHP Window Users: >| >| I have a snippet of code as in the following: >| >| <?php >| $filename="Test123.txt"; >| shell_exec("C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\hello.exe -f$filename") or die ("Failed"); >| >| ?> >| The hello.exe was written in C and is meant to produce 6 files. >| The issue >| here is that when I tried to run the PHP here, I keep on seeing >| "Failed". Am >| I not supposed to execute exe files with this method? >| >| Any tip on this would be great. >| >| Alice >| _________________________________________________________________ >| Express yourself with gadgets on Windows Live Spaces >| http://discoverspaces.live.com?source=hmtag1&loc=us >| >| The onlything I've seen is make sure that the function isn't disabled in >| your php.ini. >| Does the exe run from the command line with out php? >| Does the user that php is running at have permissions to run >| code and access >| all asscociated dirs? >| >| I'll chip in my 2c's worth. I never ever got shell() or exec() to run when using IIS, but it works every time with Apache. May be worth the switch if you are using IIS. Cheers George