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gerble1000
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Aug 15, 2012, 6:36 AM

Post #1 of 35 (3715 views)

i have an emergency please help	Can't Post

i had a virus recently and needed to reformat.
i have installed php and perl again but the php files no longer work in the cgi-bin directory. i only have 1 file i need to work,
this was the working command

Code

system('roundimage.php');

i could do with this perl script calling the file in the htdocs folder.
like so
system('C:/"Program Files (x86)"/"Apache Software Foundation"/Apache2.2/htdocs/customers/$domainname/roundimage.php');

but this does not work, i am sure its just the sintax is incorrect as i can get the php file running from the browser

Laurent_R
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Aug 15, 2012, 7:06 AM

Post #2 of 35 (3708 views)

Re: [gerble1000] i have an emergency please help [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hmmm, I am almost never using Perl under Windows, so my advice may be clumsy or clunky, but if you write:

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system('C:/"Program Files (x86)"/"Apache Software Foundation"/Apache2.2/htdocs/customers/$domainname/roundimage.php');

the $domainname variable will not be interpreted correctly, because the command is created between single quotes (no interpolation of variables).

You have to construct your command differently. Perhaps changing double quotes to single quotes and single quotes to double quotes will be sufficient to solve the problem.

If this does not work, you can first construct the command into a variable and then run it.

Something like that:

Code

my $command = 'C:/"Program Files (x86)"/"Apache Software Foundation"/Apache2.2/htdocs/customers/'; 
$command = $command . $domainname . '/roundimage.php'; 
system ("$command");

gerble1000
User

Aug 15, 2012, 7:21 AM

Post #3 of 35 (3706 views)

Re: [Laurent_R] i have an emergency please help [In reply to]	Can't Post

no joy
have you any other ideas.
it does not even like it when i leave out the variable like this

Code

system('C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs/customers/mydomainname/roundimage.php');

(This post was edited by gerble1000 on Aug 15, 2012, 7:32 AM)

Laurent_R
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Aug 15, 2012, 7:37 AM

Post #4 of 35 (3697 views)

Re: [gerble1000] i have an emergency please help [In reply to]	Can't Post

Well, maybe you can change directory first (chdir command), and then issue the command.

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system('roundimage.php');

If you print the current directory first, you will be probably be able to narrow down what the issue is, i.e. to find out if the problem is in the directory name or in the command line.

FishMonger
Veteran

Aug 15, 2012, 7:42 AM

Post #5 of 35 (3696 views)

Re: [gerble1000] i have an emergency please help [In reply to]	Can't Post

Code

my $command = 'C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs/customers/mydomainname/roundimage.php'; 
 
system($command) == 0 or die "system call failed $?";

gerble1000
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Aug 15, 2012, 7:51 AM

Post #6 of 35 (3694 views)

Re: [FishMonger] i have an emergency please help [In reply to]	Can't Post

still no joy,
no errors but does not run the php script :(

gerble1000
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Aug 15, 2012, 7:56 AM

Post #7 of 35 (3693 views)

Re: [Laurent_R] i have an emergency please help [In reply to]	Can't Post

not sure what you mean by print the current directory,
im guessing you mean display whats going on to the screen ,
not sure exactly

FishMonger
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Aug 15, 2012, 8:00 AM

Post #8 of 35 (3690 views)

Re: [gerble1000] i have an emergency please help [In reply to]	Can't Post

In Reply To

still no joy,
no errors but does not run the php script :(

I don't believe that.

If the php script did not get executed, then the die statement would have been executed which would have generated the error message and $? would have held -1 as its value.

gerble1000
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Aug 15, 2012, 8:04 AM

Post #9 of 35 (3688 views)

Re: [FishMonger] i have an emergency please help [In reply to]	Can't Post

at the very end of my script i have
print"settings successfully changed";

and thats all i get,
but when i ran your modification it just hangs as if its uploading images thats 100gb large :(

just rechecked and it doesnt hang it actually gets to the end of the script but the perl script was not run

(This post was edited by gerble1000 on Aug 15, 2012, 8:06 AM)

gerble1000
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Aug 15, 2012, 8:11 AM

Post #10 of 35 (3685 views)

Re: [FishMonger] i have an emergency please help [In reply to]	Can't Post

this is whats going on in the script before the system command

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my $upload_filehandle = $query->upload("uploadfile1"); 
open ( UPLOADFILE, ">$result1/file.jpg" ) or die "failed to open '$upload_dir/1.jpg' $!"; binmode UPLOADFILE; while ( <$upload_filehandle> ) { print UPLOADFILE; } close UPLOADFILE; 
copy("$result1/file.jpg","$result1/thumb1.jpg"); 
 
system("PhotoResize700x500ICO.exe $result1/file.jpg"); 
system("PhotoResize140x100ICO.exe $result1/thumb1.jpg"); 
 
move("$result1/file.jpg","C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs/customers/$domainname/file.jpg"); 
 
 
 
my $command = 'C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs/customers/hiddendomainname/roundimage.php';  
  
system($command) == 0 or die "system call failed $?";

and i gets the file.jpg to the correct location so that means that the path is correct in the move command

FishMonger
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Aug 15, 2012, 8:13 AM

Post #11 of 35 (3684 views)

Re: [gerble1000] i have an emergency please help [In reply to]	Can't Post

You're not making any sense. You need to provide more details and your code. However, if your code anything like what you posted in your earlier question, then don't bother, because I'm not going to waste my time troubleshooting that junk.

gerble1000
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Aug 15, 2012, 11:43 AM

Post #12 of 35 (3673 views)

Re: [FishMonger] i have an emergency please help [In reply to]	Can't Post

it does not even work with the basic script here

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#!/strawberry/perl/bin/perl -w 
 
 
 
use CGI::Carp qw( fatalsToBrowser ); 
  
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n"; 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
  
my $command = 'C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs/customers/mydomainname/roundimage.php';  
  
system($command) == 0 or die "system call failed $?"; 
 
print "<h1><center>SUCCESSFULLY CHANGED</center></h1>";

(This post was edited by gerble1000 on Aug 15, 2012, 11:44 AM)

FishMonger
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Aug 15, 2012, 11:56 AM

Post #13 of 35 (3669 views)

Re: [gerble1000] i have an emergency please help [In reply to]	Can't Post

You need to be more specific.

What does "does not even work" mean?

What part doesn't work?

What results are you seeing in the browser?

I suspect that the php file is being executed, but does not do what you expect.

What are you expecting it to do and what is actually happening?

gerble1000
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Aug 15, 2012, 12:19 PM

Post #14 of 35 (3666 views)

Re: [FishMonger] i have an emergency please help [In reply to]	Can't Post

when i got to the url of the .pl script and run it,
it just hangs like im connecting to a lagging server. just loading loading ect.
but if i play with the code a bit i can get it to display "successfully changed" but check to see if the php script has done its job and it has not.
and i can go to the php script url and it will run fine.
i am researching the issue and some people say it may be the program files (86) being to long so i tried getting the short versions like progra~2 and that did not do anything either.

i wish i could just get an error message or something

i have recently installed windows, could it be some security settings or something i am not setting

(This post was edited by gerble1000 on Aug 15, 2012, 12:20 PM)

FishMonger
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Aug 15, 2012, 12:24 PM

Post #15 of 35 (3664 views)

Re: [gerble1000] i have an emergency please help [In reply to]	Can't Post

What happens when you execute the php script from the command line using the full path like you have in the perl script?

gerble1000
User

Aug 15, 2012, 12:30 PM

Post #16 of 35 (3662 views)

Re: [FishMonger] i have an emergency please help [In reply to]	Can't Post

when i go to the folder in cmd and open the script it just opens in notepad. im guessing i am not do this right.
whats the sintax to run from dos
i forgot to put php in front :)
it runs perfectly fine from cmd

these dont work either but the script does finish

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system("C:/Progra~2/Apache~1/Apache2.2/htdocs/custom~1/firstt~1/roundimage.php c:/php/php.exe"); 
 
 
system("C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\customers\hiddendomainname\roundimage.php c:\php\php.exe");

(This post was edited by gerble1000 on Aug 15, 2012, 12:47 PM)

FishMonger
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Aug 15, 2012, 12:39 PM

Post #17 of 35 (3659 views)

Re: [gerble1000] i have an emergency please help [In reply to]	Can't Post

There's your problem

You need to setup a .php filetype association so that Windows knows to execute the script.

The other option is to adjust your system call so that it executes php and passes the script as an arg, which is what you did on the command line.

FishMonger
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Aug 15, 2012, 12:46 PM

Post #18 of 35 (3655 views)

Re: [gerble1000] i have an emergency please help [In reply to]	Can't Post

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my @command = '/path/to/php', 'C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs/customers/mydomainname/roundimage.php';  
  
system(@command) == 0 or die "system call failed $?";

(This post was edited by FishMonger on Aug 15, 2012, 12:46 PM)

gerble1000
User

Aug 15, 2012, 12:46 PM

Post #19 of 35 (3653 views)

Re: [FishMonger] i have an emergency please help [In reply to]	Can't Post

ok i have done the file type association i think.
is this what you mean by the system call

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system("C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs/customers/hiddendomainname/roundimage.php c:/php/php.exe");

as this did not work either but did finish the script

there is something strange i noticed,
it worked fine when i navigated to the directory in cmd and the typed "php roundimage.php"
but if i type " php C:/Progra~2/Apache~1/Apache2.2/htdocs/custom~1/firstt~1/roundimage.php"

then it does nothing with no error,
which is what the system call is doing,
any idea's

(This post was edited by gerble1000 on Aug 15, 2012, 12:58 PM)

gerble1000
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Aug 15, 2012, 1:35 PM

Post #20 of 35 (3637 views)

Re: [FishMonger] i have an emergency please help [In reply to]	Can't Post

ok your right with the associate .php
i have noticed about 50 notepads open in task manager.
how do i associate with php as i right clicked and opened with c:\php\php.exe and it is still opening in notepad.
is there something i have to do to make it an executable php

FishMonger
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Aug 15, 2012, 1:48 PM

Post #21 of 35 (3636 views)

Re: [gerble1000] i have an emergency please help [In reply to]	Can't Post

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307859

http://www.winvistaclub.com/t19.html

gerble1000
User

Aug 15, 2012, 1:56 PM

Post #22 of 35 (3634 views)

Re: [FishMonger] i have an emergency please help [In reply to]	Can't Post

i have done all of those things and the file has the php logo on it but when i open the file it brings up a cmd screen for a split second and thats it, but i can still run it from cmd with the php command

FishMonger
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Aug 15, 2012, 2:03 PM

Post #23 of 35 (3633 views)

Re: [gerble1000] i have an emergency please help [In reply to]	Can't Post

Can you execute it from the command line without putting php before the path to the script?

If so, how long does it take to execute and return you to the prompt?

gerble1000
User

Aug 15, 2012, 2:21 PM

Post #24 of 35 (3631 views)

Re: [FishMonger] i have an emergency please help [In reply to]	Can't Post

just checked , no i cant.
i have a feeling that my php is corrupt as when i run the script like i did before it works but also shows a lot of corruped code that scrolls for nearly 1 minute

FishMonger
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Aug 15, 2012, 2:25 PM

Post #25 of 35 (3630 views)

Re: [gerble1000] i have an emergency please help [In reply to]	Can't Post

Your php installation may or may not be corrupt, but your .php file type association is not setup correctly.

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