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Hi,

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 8:29 AM,
<php...@li...> wrote:
> [please use a standard tomcat installation!]

For a number of reasons, I would really prefer to use the version of
Tomcat that comes with Ubuntu. I think you are hung up on me not using
a standard Tomcat installation. The exception was caused by the
application running out of my home directory instead of as a WAR file
that has been exploded in Tomcat's webaps directory.

> the exception means that the bridge could not create a PHP file.
> Please change the permissions so that the bridge can create PHP
> files within the tomcat document root. The result is that PHP parses
> and returns an empty file.

My previous email already indicated I solved this problem by making
the web directory of my application writable by Tomcat. I've verified
that the PHP/Java Bridge is able to write files there my building a
custom version of php-script.jar that does not delete the temp file.

I've taken some time to dig into the PHP/Java Bridge code to try and
see what is going wrong. I'm a little concerned about how the PHP/Java
Bridge goes about calling PHP from Java. I see it creating a PHP temp
file in my application's web directory containing the script I intend
to run and then making a HTTP request to get that file back. When does
PHP get executed in this process? The HTTP request is going to go to
Tomcat, which is not going to call PHP to handle the PHP script. Why
not just call PHP directly from Java and pass in the PHP script on
standard input? That way you won't need to create a temp file or issue
a HTTP request to process the PHP script.

-- 
Jeff Weston

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