Suzanne — Sun, 01 Jun 2003 21:31:17 +0000

okay, I'll check it out. Thanks, Mark.

Mark Hensler — Sun, 01 Jun 2003 19:52:33 +0000

For wget, you basically just use: "wget URL"

There are quite a few options if you do "wget --help". Including no-cache, faking the User-Agent header, and faking the Referer header.

As for php, my guess is that /usr/bin/php is the binary.

Suzanne — Sat, 31 May 2003 19:26:12 +0000

Whee, exploring again, found lynx. Woo!

lynx: /usr/bin/lynx /etc/lynx.cfg /usr/share/man/man1/lynx.1.gz

Okay, so I have lynx, and I have php somewhere I don't know how to find it. How do I use wget? I want to cover all my bases here.

Update: it WORKS! Finally. *phew* Using lynx is solid, does the job.

Suzanne — Sat, 31 May 2003 19:20:32 +0000

Aha, okay, I have access to the server through shell. Of course, now I can't remember what the heck I needed to do this for. *argh* This over-a-few-days troubleshoooting is ridiculously hard.

Suzanne — Sat, 31 May 2003 19:02:13 +0000

okay, that didn't have any results, though it was really really cool to learn.

I went digging and found that my host uses MindTerm (java applet) to fake SSH, so I used that.

This is what it returned for a "whereis php"

/usr/bin/php
/usr/lib/php
/usr/local/bin/php
/usr/local/lib/php.ini
/usr/local/lib/php
/usr/include/php

So, now, which do you suppose is what I need?

I tried them all in the passthru above, to no avail.

Mark Hensler — Sat, 31 May 2003 18:04:15 +0000

You can fake shell access:

<?php
passthru('sh /usr/local/php/bin/php -r \\'echo "found php!\n";\\'');
?>

Suzanne — Sat, 31 May 2003 15:07:43 +0000

I don't have shell access on my own server, and it's not working there. I'll try it on the client server and see if I can find it.

I'm getting very frustrated now, so I think maybe rewriting it in Perl would be easier. I say this BEFORE rewriting it, naturally.

Mark Hensler — Thu, 29 May 2003 05:33:35 +0000

There is no --prefix, so the default (/usr/local/php) would have been used.

So try:
/usr/local/php/bin/php -f /path/to/script.php

Or... better yet, try this in the shell first:
/usr/local/php/bin/php -r 'echo "found php!\n";'

Suzanne — Wed, 28 May 2003 22:41:45 +0000

Configure Command 

 './configure' 
'--with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs' 
'--with-xml' 
'--enable-bcmath' 
'--enable-calendar' 
'--enable-ftp'
 '--enable-magic-quotes' 
'--with-mysql' 
'--with-pear' 
'--enable-sockets' 
'--enable-track-vars' 
'--enable-versioning' 
'--with-zlib' 

Does that tell you waht you need to know? What *I* need to know? lol.

Mark Hensler — Wed, 28 May 2003 22:34:20 +0000

The include_path may not show the correct path to php. Check phpinfo() again and see if there is a --prefix in the "configure command"