Hi, thanks for your reply. The COM app doesn't even start. Viewing the webpage that only attempts to open and close a COM instance (to winamp incidently) simply says "Web page found, waiting for reply" and nothing ever happens. Simply trying it against the command line works fine however which baffles me. It also puts me in the direction of permissions I'd guess? But I've never really used XP/NT/2K before so I'm not sure where to look in that case.
I read your answer to Olivier (whose problem appears to be the same as mine) and as for the user not being able to use COM, for the benefits of testing, I was logged in as administrator which makes me doubtful that the cause lies there?... Would appreciate any other advice you might have. Cheers Ross -----Original Message----- From: Scott Hurring [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 08 July 2002 22:33 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP-WIN] Re: COM stalls the server.. Have you been making sure that the COM app. actually finishes and cleans up properly on the server (i.e. CTL+ALT+DEL process list doesn't show it)? I was playing with Excel+COM with PHP 4.2.0 and there was a bug with the COM implementation and the Excel instance would never terminate.... so after a few minutes, there'd be so many open Excel instances that the computer would really slow down. I'd imagine that on a server, the problem would be magnified. -- Scott Hurring Systems Programmer EAC Corporation scott (*) eac.com -- "Ross Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Hi again > > I'm trying a bit of COM programming in PHP but can't for the life of me > figure out what's wrong. I've tried both Winamp (have winampCOM installed) > and MS Word and it just seems to stall the server whenever I view a page > with it. Can anyone explain why or is there a setting in php.ini I have to > play with? (I've looked but can't find anything) > > It seems to work from the command line, but not through a browser. > > Config: > Win XP Pro (administator) > Apache 1.3.26 > PHP 4.2.1 > > Ross > -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
