[Xitami] PHP and CGI error on Windows98 SE

[Ewen McNeill]

In message <001001c10228$3c5a9000$5adefea9@sfingatron>, "Vladimir Domjan jr." writes:
>I have a major problem. As I reinstalled my system (windows 98 SE), an 
>error occures each time I try to start CGI or PHP script on Xitami 
>server. Before reinstalling Windows98 It worked oky, no problem 
>reported. But now I don't know what to do.
>As I start my page expl.: "http://localhost/test/test.php" Windows just 
>freeze and only hope to get back is CTRL+ALT+DEL and kill either 
>InternetExplorer or Winoldap (I think it is from windows to start old 
>applications). If I kill Winoldap then php executes script ok.

This sounds very strange.  It sounds like Windows is causing problems
with Xitami trying to run programs.  We've seen this occassionally if
you have a virus scanner running, or some other security product that
tries to restrict what programs can do (Xitami needs to be able to run
other programs, to do CGI/filters).  

If you do have a virus scanner running or some other security product,
try disabling it briefly and see if the problem with Xitami and
CGI/filters goes away.  If it does, it's a conflict between the two
things.

If you don't have either a virus scanner or security product running, it
sounds a bit like something has got messed up with your Windows install
-- although that's a little suspicious given that it sounds like a
relatively recent install.  But sometimes Windows is just like that :-(

Ewen

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Ewen McNeill, Technical Consultant, iMatix Corporation  www.imatix.com