[cgiwrap-users] Re: cgiwrap and php?

[Nathan N. <nn...@um...>]

nicholas cole wrote:
> 
> I've been on cgiwrap's mailing list looking around, and
> since i'm just f'n confused about this, i thought i'd ask
> you this as a start..
> 
> can php work with cgiwrap without putting a #! in the
> script?
> 
> personaly i don't have any problem putting a #! in my php
> scripts, but i have customers that come in with php apps
> that have shitloads of individual php scripts, just way too
> many to add a #! to..
> 
> --
> nicholas cole

I vaguely remember someone having mentioned making that work. It would
be a relatively easy fix in any case - just add some code to cgiwrap
before the exec to automatically exec a script using a particular
command. Although, I would suggest something like:

if ( regular-exec-fails with a file-not-found error or similar )
{
	check filename
	if ( filename ends with .php )
	{
		exec same command using php as interpreter
	}
	elsif ( filename ends with .pl )
	{
		exec with perl...
	}
	else
	{
		generate error message
	}
}

Unfortunately, that probably would not take into account that scripts
without a #! are automatically fed to /bin/sh. 

You could just do that check+exec before the regular exec, but then
there would be no way for a user to run a script using #! that ran with
a different perl or different php unless they did some sort of exec in
the script itself.

I suppose if you had to, you could have cgiwrap open and read the first
couple of bytes of the script and only apply the extension/exec check if
the script didn't have a #!.

-- Nathan

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