TYPO3 Core

I also had this error on the same environment recently.

I found out that you have to give permission for the IIS user (IUSR) to read and execute cmd.exe (usually in c:\windows\system32).

I guess PHP does not execute its target directly, but indirectly through cmd.exe.

The install script could check for this situation and give a warning.

How?
Please make a suggestion.

The install script already tries to prevent errors by issuing warnings if it doesn't have read and write permission to several directories.

I think it could also issue a warning if: (A) it is running on Windows and (B) it doesn't have read and execute permission for the command interpreter (WINDOWS PATH\system32\cmd.exe).

I know this is not very important. But I think if Typo3 can be installed more easily by people that are not Linux and PHP experts, its user base will grow.

If this makes sense to you let me know, I may try to implement it.

Yes, it does make sense to me.
So go ahead!
- thanks a lot in advance!

Just an update: I've started working on it.

I'm submitting a patch for the file class.t3lib_install.php version 3.6.2.

This bugfix will issue a warning and an explanation if while running in a Windows system the exec() function returns error.

This patch will be inserted at the bottom of the checkImageMagick() function. I think this is the better place because this issue affects specifically ImageMagick.

Tested under Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server.

I'd like to know if my proposal has been reviwed.

OK I've added a small change to your patch so that a non-executable cmd will cause [BE][disable_exec_function] to become true (just like in case of safe-mode enabled).

Can you please check if this works?
Well, after looking at it again I think this won't work (have no Windows so I cannot test it).

See line 2232 of the patched file. To me this looks like disable_exec_function will never be set to true because $this->config_array["safemode"] has not been set yet. (Same for $this->config_array["cmd_exec"] which I have added.)

@Ingmar: Can you please have a look at the above?

anyone already noticed that "Unable to fork [/convert.exe] in ..." thing is probably not an error message of IM but of win2k3 instead?
you could for example convert(.exe) one disk filesystem to another (FAT to NTFS) if you wish, but this requires special user rights...

bearbeitet am: 24.11.04 09:15

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last feedback is from 11/2004. we believe this is some problem/misconfiguration of the environment.

If you still feel this is a bug on behalf of TYPO3 please reopen.