I apologize if this is a simple-minded question. I have googled this and searched the FAQs on this site, but all the keywords I can think to use are too common and never find a yes/no answer. We have Apache running as a service on a Windows 7 Pro system. We have no problem with the following running a php script: http://our_system/proc.php?arg_list In proc.php, we execute a program on "our_system" (validate.exe) that reads stdin and queries an InterBase database and returns the results through stdout to "proc.php" which in turn returns the results back to the calling system. We want to eliminate the "middle man" and have Apache start "validate.exe" directly, passing "arg_list" to it and returning the output of "validate.exe" back to the calling system. 1. Is this possible? 2. Do we have to install some sort of service for Apache? 3. Would Apache communicate with "validate.exe" using stdin and stdout? We have complete control over the Apache system and can make any changes to Apache configuration files necessary. Thanks for any help you can provide.
Hi, I presume your validate.exe file just making queries in your database. That functin you can directly code in PHP. You have bult-in InterBase function in PHP. Or if you don't want use PHP on your site there is a another option to use CGI-BIN script.Here you have some information from cgi script: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface Rudolf