Server side scripting on search_template.html

[IDI]

Hi,

Have a quick question. I've been using Zoom for about 2 years now(v6) and have made quite a few websites now and usually always need to create a search page in php. I always use this code and it works:

<?php
$QSTRING = $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
$REMADDR = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
putenv("REQUEST_METHOD=GET");
putenv("QUERY_STRING=$QSTRING");
putenv("REMOTE_ADDR=$REMADDR");
// absolute path to search.cgi required below
$output = shell_exec("C:\inetpub\wwwroot\search\search.cgi") ;
$output = ereg_replace("Content-type: text/html;", "", $output);
echo $output;
?>

So I created a new website and using this code, I could not get it to work. I came here and copied the code from the tutorial which was this:

<?php
$QSTRING = $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
$REMADDR = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
putenv("REQUEST_METHOD=GET");
putenv("QUERY_STRING=$QSTRING");
putenv("REMOTE_ADDR=$REMADDR");
// absolute path to search.cgi required below
$output = shell_exec("C:\\inetpub\\wwwroot\\search\\search.c gi");
$output = ereg_replace("Content-type: text/html;", "", $output);
echo $output;
?>

My only conclusion was my absolute path was wrong, it need the double \\ not just one \

But if that is the case then why did it work for my other sites?

Just curious, would like to know exactly what went wrong here for future reference.

Thanks!

[David]

Maybe the version of PHP was different on the different servers?

[IDI]

Ray,

Same server, same PHP version. Currently using PHP 5.5.11.

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[Ray]

You probably had different PHP settings. Maybe you had PHP Safe Mode enabled on one and not the other.

Other people discussing this problem with PHP and windows paths:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...th-not-running