HaRRiKiRi Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 Hi. I have some bizarre problem with exec (other any other method) to launch exe's. I am making a game server booking system and the part that is not working is the one with the launching the server itself. Its not connected to the server exe's as far as I know because I can't launch no exe at all. The closes thing I have come is launching the process, but the window does not show up. Here is the code I am using now: $commandString = 'start /b notepad.exe'; pclose(popen($commandString, 'r')); I have also tried WshShell.Run and psexec.exe method. All of them yields the same results... nothing. It launches the process (it shows up in the task manager process tab), but does not launch the application itself (does not show up in task managers applications tab) and the window is not visible. I would expect it to run the exe (in this case notepad), but it doesn't. I think it could be something to do with php.ini or somewhere else in the configs. Are there any things I should turn on when I want to launch apps? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/177958-executing-an-exe/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
teynon Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 I don't have a lot of experience running shell commands, but is your php / apache running as administrator? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/177958-executing-an-exe/#findComment-938292 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoneNowBye Posted October 17, 2009 Share Posted October 17, 2009 PHP exec() google it; i've never used it but i know it exists You are welcome Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/177958-executing-an-exe/#findComment-938550 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaRRiKiRi Posted October 17, 2009 Author Share Posted October 17, 2009 I have only one user on the PC (Administrator), and it does launch the process, just not the window, so it seems that it isn't the problem. HavokDelta6: Of course I tried it (with all other methods I could find) and it does not work. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/177958-executing-an-exe/#findComment-938563 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoneNowBye Posted October 17, 2009 Share Posted October 17, 2009 Then there is no way. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/177958-executing-an-exe/#findComment-938568 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaRRiKiRi Posted October 18, 2009 Author Share Posted October 18, 2009 Then there is no way.Its kind of pessimistic as you haven't even ever used that function. As there are like 6 ways to launch an exe then there is a way. Anyway, I found out the problem. My Apachi Service was not set to "Allow service to interact with desktop". This should be more documented as now it took 3 days to figure this simple thing out. Any googlers here, If you have this problem then go to ControlPanel>Administrative Tools>Services>Apache properties>Log On> And check "Allow service to interact with desktop" checkbox. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/177958-executing-an-exe/#findComment-939287 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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