X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-Id: <1137355920.7806.251903339@webmail.messagingengine.com> From: "Brett Serkez" To: robert AT webtent DOT com, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <43CA8A92 DOT 2000409 AT webtent DOT net> Subject: Re: Running php scripts under cygwin In-Reply-To: <43CA8A92.2000409@webtent.net> Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 15:12:00 -0500 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > You would think I could find lots of info on this subject, but for > some reason I can't. I found info from googling the subject and some > mention of building php with cygwin, but do not see PHP in cygwin > setup. I tried to run a php script from a cygwin prompt using the > php.exe installed into Windows, but get lots of module errors. Is it > possible to run a php script under cygwin. I just have a php script > that I use for backup with rsync over ssh and those tools work great > under cygwin. I'd like to use this same script that I use on my > unix/linux servers. You would need to down load the php source package from www.php.net, install required development tools (i.e.,gcc, make...) and then configure, compile and install just as you would on a Linux system. Perl and php are so close in syntax, in the case of such a utility script, I would image it would be easier to convert the php script to perl to run under Cygwin, than build php from source. Are you intending to run the script from Apache, command line, cron? I use perl to drive rsync over ssh backups on both Linux and Windows and it works, save the issues that have been reported on this list. For myself, I've had to compile a custom rsync to utilize pipes vs. a local socket to work around initial hangs, others have see hangs with large transfers. Brett ---------------------------------------------------------------- Brett C. Serkez, Techie -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/