Is it possible to run php exec through cygwin? - php

Question

Hey guys I have one php exec command that works on my remote linux server but not my windows (WAMP package) local server. I really want to create an identical workstation so I can test locally and then update my remote server. If anyone has any suggestions or solutions other than converting to linux, I would really appreciate it.
<?php
$safe_path = escapeshellarg('fake-virus.txt');
$command = '/usr/bin/clamscan --stdout ' . $safe_path;
$out = '';
$int = -1;
exec($command, $out, $int);
echo $int;
if ($int == 0) {
// all good;
} else {
echo 'o no';// VIRUS!;
}
?>

Answer 1

I really want to create an identical workstation so I can test locally and then update my remote server
Installing cygwin is the wrong way to go about this. Just use virtualbox, which you can get from here, and run an Ubuntu VM. Much easier (and nicer).

Answer 2

Use 'su' it works great for me when doing cool cross OS stuff
shell_exec('su Administrator -c "cmd/script"');
Its not that difficult to run cygwin with Apache PHP and more. Here is a pretty simple tutorial cygwin-apache-php Have fun!

Answer 3

At least in one instance I was able to use shell_exec() of php of wamp (on windows:-)) via cygwin. I had to install procps or something in the cygwin installer to have a top command of sorts in cygwin. Then I was able to use wamps php shell_exec to perform that cygwin top command using Kishans suggestion in http://php.net/manual/en/function.shell-exec.php:
<?php
echo $result = shell_exec("C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --login -c '/cygdrive/c/cygwin64/bin/top.exe --b -n 1'");
?>
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Kisha's remarks cited:
If you are on windows and has Cygwin, You can execute all your Cygwin binaries using shell_exec() as follows:
<?
$result = shell_exec("C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -c '/cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/convert.exe --version'");
print($result);
?>
The key is the "--login" option which appends all the required common cygwin binary and library paths to $PATH. Without this option some of the cygwin binaries that links to other libraries ( Like ImageMagick binaries which links to X11 ) will not work and you may see errors like "cygX11-6.dll not found, Could not start convert.exe"