how to call 2 scripts from the same server without the 2nd waiting for the first

[billionareHuman]

I have a windows/apache setup. I want to call 2 scripts without the 2nd one waiting for the first one to finish executing to run.

 

I have tried setting up 2 different virtual hosts to call the 2nd script on a different host but the apache is not fooled and still waits.

 

I suspect it's an IP thing? perhaps if I had multiple IPs on my server it would work?

 

Thanks

[JonnoTheDev]

Set the scripts running as background processes then you do not need to wait

 

exec("php /path/to/script1.php > /dev/null &");
exec("php /path/to/script2.php > /dev/null &");

[billionareHuman]

thanks for that I'm calling them through a browser interface though as it's needed

[alphanumetrix]

what do the scripts do? if you're trying to execute something, you might be able to set them up in an array, and execute it all at once.

[billionareHuman]

the problem is the 1st script pauses and waits for input from the 2nd script (writes to a file). The first script then keeps checking for the the file input

 

Unfortunately php is not like a desktop application where I  can pause the application to wait for a user to input