[Erlyaws-list] YAWS with PHP on Windows XP problem

[Carl McDade]

Is this being worked on? Or is it marked for testing/improvement in a
later version?

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Carl McDade<carlmcdade@REDACTED> wrote:
> Just to make sure I rolled back from 1.84 to 1.82 and received the same result.
>
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Carl McDade<carlmcdade@REDACTED> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Confirming: I just tried this on Vista,PHP-CGI.exe and got the same
>> result, which is a blank page and no error outside of the path error
>> in the interactive window.
>>
>> /Carl
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 3:14 AM, andrew mmc<andrewmmc@REDACTED> wrote:
>>> Forgive me if I'm stating the obvious now, but I think the first problem was
>>> because the file extension was cgi, it tried to execute the file, which it
>>> couldn't do because it is on windows.  When you changed the extension to
>>> php, yaws knew to pass through the file as a parameter to the php executable
>>> - the correct behaviour.
>>>
>>> I think the problem is now with php.  PHP has some default behaviour set for
>>> security reasons.  e.g. on *nix you have to explicitly compile it with the
>>> option to run as cgi.  It also by default will not allow itself to execute
>>> anything outside of its docroot, so perhaps the test file isn't in or below
>>> the docroot set in php.ini?
>>>
>>> Otherwise, perhaps some of the other cgi specific options there could have
>>> an effect?
>>>
>>>
>>> 2009/7/21 Claes Wikstrom <klacke@REDACTED>
>>>>
>>>> > Yes, this path exists. And it's correct - YAWS throws an error with
>>>> > incorrect path.
>>>> >
>>>> > ("serwer" it's a Polish pronounceation of server, sorry for that - I've
>>>> >  to change it but later ;))
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> Nice :-)
>>>>
>>>> > Still, problem is unresolved...
>>>>
>>>> I'll take a look at it - but not now. As I said before, this just
>>>> needs to be debugged. I.e yaws_cgi.erl needs to be debug modified
>>>> so that we
>>>>
>>>> 1. see what get's open_ported() ed
>>>> 2. figure out why that doesn't work.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> /klacke
>>>>
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