Bill,
I tried your suggestions, but they didn't work.
I did, however, manage to come up with two solutions.
The first is the simplest. And that just involves setting the PATH environment variable to the absolute path of the subdirectory where the executable resides and then doing the system call to the executable. The system call will now be able to find the executable.
$ENV{'PATH'}="C:/inetpub/web/sub";
system (anyprogram.exe arg1");The second way is to create a batch file in the web root top level that contains the absolute full path to the executable and the argument(s):
C:/inetpub/web/sub/anyprogram.exe arg1
Then do a system call to the batch file:
system ("info.bat");I prefer the first method.
Thanks again Bill.
Paul
Paul Appleby wrote:
> system ("C:/inetpub/web/sub/anyprogram.exe arg1");I am trying to make a system call to an executable that is in a subdirectory in the web root.
For example, if the executable is in the top level of the web root, this works:
system ("anyprogram.exe arg1");
But if the executable is in a subdirectory, it won't work when I try a path to the executable. For example, this doesn't work:
I'm using Perl 5.6.1 on Windows 2000 and IIS 5.
A couple of things to try :
Not sure what the current directory is when running IIS, you could print out the current directory to see where you are to start with (see Cwd module).
You could try using \'s instead of /'s, may make a difference depending on what shell is being used.
You could try a relative path rather than absolute : system 'sub\anyprogram.exe arg1';
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