[Xitami] #exec cmd= in Win XP

[Charles Duval]

For those following this topic, here's more.
Thank you to those who have given me advices, but we're not there yet.

1) #exec cmd=
On my system (Windows XP), Xitami  (ver 2.5b5) is installed as a Service.
In XP, when you do that, the service runs as LocalService and uses
permissions attributed to Local Services which are limited.  When you set an
Environment Variable (like ssi_insecure) in the Administrator account for
example, it won't be set in the LocalService account, so Xitami won't see
it.

So... I was trying to run a "#exec cmd=" SSIs, but in LocalService, the
SSI_INSECURE was not set to YES: it did not exist.  I changed the rights of
the Xitami Service so it now runs with the Administrator rights.  Now I can
read SSI_INSECURE=YES in the environment variables through a CGI called by
Xitami.  Even there, I have not been able to run anything through #exec cmd=
even something as simple as :

<!--#exec cmd="cmd /c set"-->
or <!--#exec cmd="c:\test.exe"-->  (a simple HelloWorld application that
runs fine as a CGI)...
It should work, shouldn't it???

2) CGI stand alone.
I want to use XCOPY to copy the content of one directory on a hard disk to a
ramdisk through a CGI that run simply by typing
http://myServerAddress/cgi-bin/copy2ramdsk" in a browser (or by clicking on
an Hyperlink).

Someone wrote that I had to use the DOS "CMD" command 'cause it needs the
command line interpreter. But this is not a command line.  It's an .EXE
located in \windows\system32.  The "DIR" command won't work without "CMD",
but xcopy should (I tryed the cmd command anyways - with our without quotes,
but it didn't work).  All the other stuff works:
cmd /c dir c:\
cmd /c copy c:\test\*.* r:\
cmd /c copy \?
cmd c:\xitami\cgi-bin\testcgi.exe

Maybe it's just XCOPY that does not allow this. :-(

About RapidQ basic, I know that it's not the best, but I don't use it for
heavy CGI jobs : it's my "fast testing" software and it's much faster than
my regular C compiler.  It has a CGI switch that compiles (in bytecode) in o
ne pass and the output of the "compiled" application is sent to the stdio
like a regular C application (not the screen).  And it's free !  I use C++
for the real-life stuff.