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I'm trying to execute an external p

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CajunCenturion (Programmer)

18 May 12 12:19

I'm trying to execute an external program from Apache/PHP, and the PHP scrips hangs up on the exec command.

Details:
Windows 2008 R2, Apache 2.4, and PHP 5.2.17
The executable was building Visual FoxPro 9.0, SP2.
The exe currently resides in the Windows\System32 directory. It's only there for now to try to take permissions out of the equation.

The topic has been address in the PHP forum: thread434-1683454: Trying to exec foxpro app from within PHP

Since the program executes as expected when run directly from the command line, and also executes as expected by PHP as follows:
c:\>php script.php
I can't help but wonder if there is something amiss with the Apache config. Apache is currently configured to log in as Administrator in hopes to take any permission issues out of play.

Any help graciously appreciated.

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CajunCenturion (Programmer)

18 May 12 13:31

The problem has been solved. It turns out is was a combination of a corrupt DLL, permissions, and an invalid Foxpro resource file.

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