Running and terminating an exe file with PHP

PHP
1

Hello,

I need to build a web page where I can remotely run and terminate a .exe file.

I will basically build a start and stop button but I am not sure how to go about actually running and terminating the program.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

2

I’ve got the page working to start the exe. using the following:

<form method="post"><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Start Game Server"> | <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Start Master Server"></form>

<?php
if($_POST['submit'] == "Start Game Server")
{
	exec("E:\\GameServer\\Server.exe");
	echo "Game server has been started";
}else
{
	exec("E:\\MasterServer\\MasterServer.exe");
	echo "Master Server has been started";
}	

?>

Does anyone know how to check to see if it’s already running? can i use

proc_get_status();

and to terminate?

Can i use:

proc_terminate();
3

I’m not very familiar with the windows command line. But if you plan to start a process from php, you’ll need to do it in a way that lets the php script exit before the process finishes. Maybe try searching php background process windows to see what the commands would be.

I just played with it real quick and this seems to work to see if a process is running
tasklist /fi “imagename eq apache.exe”

And to kill
taskkill /im apache.exe

4

Thanks malibu I will try that. Not finding much info out there.