Minimal Install - CGI

Hello,

I am trying to do a "minimal install" using PHP as CGI. For my app
there is no need for the server to be modified - I'm not trying to get
the server to recognize a PHP file and automatically call the PHP
executable.

The environment that I am currently working on is Win32 (XP) with
Apache up an running and seemingly working correctly. (It serves up
pages and will execute and display my "hello.exe" - a simple "hello
world").

What I think I should be able to do is simply copy the php4ts.dll,
php.exe, and php.ini into the cgi-bin directory. The php.ini file is
the "php.ini-recommended" that came with the PHP.

I created a phpinfo.php in the CGI directory and it looks like this:

#!c:\www\cgi-bin\php.exe
<?php
print ("Content-type: text/html\n\n");
print ("PHP Works!");
?>

The result I get is : "The page cannot be displayed" with a page title
of "Cannot find server".

It appears that the PHP program is being found, because if I change
the server directive to look for a non-existent php.exe
(#!c:\www\cgi-bin\php-blah.exe) I get an "Internal Server Error"
instead.

From the command line I get:

C:\www\cgi-bin>php.exe phpinfo.php
Content-type: text/html
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.4

Content-type: text/html

PHP Works!



(Interesting that it's printing out the Content-type automatically)



Any ideas?

Thanks!
Christopher

I discovered my problem. The PHP.exe that needs to be executed is the CLI
version. I will be ecstatic if the PHP developers ever decide to give PHP a
compile option.

-CF




"ChronoFish" <deja@chronofish.com> wrote in message
news:teSpb.1090$oB3.260@lakeread03...
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to do a "minimal install" using PHP as CGI. For my app
> there is no need for the server to be modified - I'm not trying to get
> the server to recognize a PHP file and automatically call the PHP
> executable.
>
> The environment that I am currently working on is Win32 (XP) with
> Apache up an running and seemingly working correctly. (It serves up
> pages and will execute and display my "hello.exe" - a simple "hello
> world").
>
> What I think I should be able to do is simply copy the php4ts.dll,
> php.exe, and php.ini into the cgi-bin directory. The php.ini file is
> the "php.ini-recommended" that came with the PHP.
>
> I created a phpinfo.php in the CGI directory and it looks like this:
>
> #!c:\www\cgi-bin\php.exe
> <?php
> print ("Content-type: text/html\n\n");
> print ("PHP Works!");
> ?>
>
> The result I get is : "The page cannot be displayed" with a page title
> of "Cannot find server".
>
> It appears that the PHP program is being found, because if I change
> the server directive to look for a non-existent php.exe
> (#!c:\www\cgi-bin\php-blah.exe) I get an "Internal Server Error"
> instead.
>
> From the command line I get:
>
> C:\www\cgi-bin>php.exe phpinfo.php
> Content-type: text/html
> X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.4
>
> Content-type: text/html
>
> PHP Works!
>
>
>
> (Interesting that it's printing out the Content-type automatically)
>
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
> Christopher
>
>