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Just a quick inquiry on whether or not I should upgrade to php 4.3.2 on a Windows installation. I had some trouble in the past with this but I was wondering if anyone had gotten Geeklog to work with the latest version of PHP. The latest version is supposed to provide a fix for forking external processes. The 4.3.1 version would invoke cmd.exe to run the shell and call the external process. If you have removed privileges for this program, you would then recieve an "Unable to fork..." message. As far as I know, there is not another way around this. Thanks

I'm not aware of any problems that are related to specific versions of PHP (not counting PHP bugs and assuming a relatively recent version of PHP - no guarantees for PHP 4.0.1). Actually, I'm running Geeklog on PHP 4.3.3rc1 locally without any problems. bye, Dirk

geeklog works fine for me with both php-4.2.3 and php-accelerator. Regards, Neil Darlow M.Sc.

Well... GL doesn't work for me with PHP 4.3.2. I was running PHP 4.1.2 and it was working just fine. But then I upgraded to PHP 4.3.2 (building from sources) and GL stop working :-( Configuration? The default first, and later the same that was working in 4.1.2. Solution? Downgrade... I haven't enough time to find the problem. Regards.

Sorry! I forget to mention I running Debian GNU/Linux and the problem is that GL don't allow me to add news, comments, polls... :-P bye.

Yes, Geeklog does work on 4.3.2. Please remember that new installs of PHP now default register_globals to 'Off' in php.ini. You will have to turn that on.---The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.

Is register_globals = off in your php.ini? Usually this is the number one problem in not being able to post after upgrading your version of php. Good luck ---Victor B. Gonzalez

Thank you for your answer... but no, register_globals is On :-P So, I think it would be right.

"Well... GL doesn't work for me with PHP 4.3.2." Please explain what you mean by "doesn't work" and perhaps we'll be able to help you trouble shoot a bit more. -Vinny

I performed the php 4.3.2 installation successfully and turned globals on. That solved my previous upgrade problem. I found a fix for the unable to fork message on a windows machine, where permissions to cmd.exe have been intentionally removed. My solution was to write my own version of cmd.exe that checked for the parameters being passed to it to make sure it was a call to my external program, in my case it was a call to convert.exe. If authorized to run convert, it would just pass through the other command line parameters and call convert.exe directly, otherwise it would exit entirely. In addition, the program can be dropped into the appropriate directory where the php script is located and it will execute properly. You must have execute permissions on the file. Because its located in the current directory, my version of cmd.exe will execute instead of the real one. In addition, I like this solution, because its 100% secure, it only calls the designated program (its hardcoded), and it doesnt leave my web server wide open to huge security holes. I hope somebody finds this helpful.

Correction, the new cmd.exe was placed in the web root, and everything worked correctly.