Executing .exe with PHP ( Server side ) ??

Hello everyone,

I have a Counter-Strike 1.6 server and I would like to let my server admins to turn ON the server when it crashes, so I investigated a bit to do this using PHP to run an .exe on my server but I'm not very experienced at php and I couldn't figure out how to do this and it's giving me a very big headache cuz I can't find any website/forum that explains how to run a .exe with php..

I have a dedicated server, with Windows server 2003 sp1 ..

this is the path to the .exe I want to execute with PHP

it's a shortcut, and this is the target:

I would appreciate if someone could tell me the PHP code to run this application through PHP..

Thanks !!

 

hmm. This should work;

exec("C:\\HLDS\\schlds.exe");

PHP:

If not, play around with the path.

 

I tried, but it didn't do anything at all..

 

Place schlds.exe in your public_html folder. Or a folder you know the path to (preferebly the same folder as the .php file), and try to execute from there.

 

nope, doesn't seems to be working..

i placed the exe at the same location as the PHP file and nothing..

 

Show your code please.

 

I tried:

<?php
exec("C:\\xampp\\htdocs\\test\\schlds.exe");
?>

Code (php):

and:

<?php
exec("schlds.exe");
?>

Code (php):

and

<?php
exec("./schlds.exe");
?>

Code (php):

 

<?php
    if (exec("schlds.exe") || exec("/schlds.exe") || exec("./schlds.exe")){
        die('true');
    }
    echo 'false';
?>

PHP:

Tell me what happens.

 

I got the message "false"

 

ugh. I suggest telling your friends to download PuTTY. Give them SSH access, and teach them how to execute the program from there.
I'm not very experienced with exec.

 

how does that works??

 

do it something like this:

exec('/path/to/your/exe', $result);
print_r($result);

PHP:

 

this is all I get and exe not running.:

Array ( ) 

Code (php):

 

hmm, your exe file should be a console app, otherwise you wont get any

 

It is a console..

The .exe I want to run is a shortcut with the following path:

"C:\HLDS\hlds.exe" -console -game cstrike -ip MYIPHERE -port 27016 +maxplayers 27 +map de_nuke 

Code (php):

is there any way to get this command working??

 

some example? may be it help to you

 

are you doing it like this?

$exe = "C:\HLDS\hlds.exe -console -game cstrike -ip MYIPHERE -port 27016 +maxplayers 27 +map de_nuke";
exec($exe, $result);
print_r($result);

PHP:

 

yes, this is what I'm doing:

<?php
$exe = "C:\\HLDS\\hlds.exe -console -game cstrike -ip HERETHEIP -port 27017 +maxplayers 12 +map de_dust";
exec($exe, $result);
print_r($result);
?>

Code (php):

and all i get is Array ( )