I looked thru the forum posts and reviewed all the suggestions for "Unable to Fork" issues but I cannot get my GL DB to backup. I am currently using WIN2003, IIS, mySQL 5.0.22 & PHP 5.0 and everything works fine except this backup procedure. This is the error I get:

Warning: exec() [function.exec]: Unable to fork [C:/mysql/mysqldump.exe -hlocalhost -uroot -p -Q geeklog > "D:/Websites/geeklog/backups/geeklog_db_backup_2006_07_21_10_13_19.sql"] in D:/Websites/Sitea.com/admin/database.php on line 166

My mysqldump.exe resides in the correct folder above which I made. That folder has Read/Write & Execute permissions for the IUSR_WEBUSER. The backup folder for GL also has these same permissions.

The code in the config.php looks as follows:

// full path to mysqldump executable (Windows users: add ".exe"!)
$_DB_mysqldump_path = 'C:/mysql/mysqldump.exe';

Anyone have any suggestions?

TIA - DK

Try copy windows/system32cmd.exe to your PHP directory (default is c:/php). Also make sure it has execute permissions for the IIS user. For testing - set execute perms for group everyone.

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Is that a Windows System file? Because to be honest with you I have never heard of that file nor is there one on my server. I made sure all hidden and system files were visible and a search on system32cmd.exe results in nothing.

Perhaps you meant a different file name or I am very stupid right now?

Thanks for your help.

TIA - DK

I missed a directory separator. It should have been windows/system32/cmd.exe

The file cmd.exe is actually the windows program you run to get a DOS window or to run a DOS batch file.

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That didn't seem to work. I restarted IIS as well to make sure and I still receive the same error.

Any other tricks up your sleeve?

Thanks for your persistence..I hate bothering you guys.

-DM

That did not work. I DC'd permissions on cmd.exe and IUSR_NAME has write access to it. I also made sure that Backups/ also has the same access which is does. The mysqldump.exe also has the same access. CMD.exe is in the PHP folder as well. I also tried to give the IUSR write permission to the PHP folder and that did not work either. The TEMP folder also has the same writes.

Am I missing one more folder or file which needs write permission for the IUSR user?

Any help to solve this is VERY appreciated...its causing problems with IIS...
TIA

Grant permissions to the Internet Guest Account - read and execute, as Blaine suggested.

Also, Grant modify permissions to the same user for /pathtogeeklog/backups

That works for me and I've done this alot!