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[motlive]

Hi All,

I currently have some backtick commands running on my debian server, however when i try and run it on my windows server or my ubuntu server it wont run.

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        <?php
$output = `/usr/bin/host -t ns $query`;

$find [] = "Host $query not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)";
$find [] = "$query name server";
$replace [] = " Domain Not Found - Please make sure you've spelt it correctly";
$replace [] = "";

$output =  str_replace($find, $replace, strtolower( trim( $output ) ) );

if (preg_match("^[a-z0-9\:\.\-]+$^", "$output $query"))
{
                echo "Name Servers:<pre>$output</pre>";
}
elseif ($domain == ""){
                echo "";
}
else {
                echo "You have entered an invalid domain name, do not enter 'http://' or 'www.'";
}
?>

Is there an alternative to running this on a windows machine?

[spinal007]

Yep, of course there is, it's a simple script, but the real question is:
1. Why won't it run? Is it using IIS or Apache? Is PHP installed? Do you get an error message?

We're not mind readers!

[motlive]

IIS for Windows and Apache for Ubuntu

no errors, it just stops processing anything as soon as it reaches the first command that it needs to run.

PHP is installed and works fine.

[spinal007]

by "stops processing" do you mean...
A) the PHP code is displayed as text, hence it's not executed...
OR
B) you don't see the PHP code, it's being executed, but itdoesn't output anything...

(I'm sorry I'[m asking so many questions, I'm an ASP programmer but I'm trying to help)

[motlive]

no errors, just blank :S

I think the problem is that i am executing:

$output = `/usr/bin/host -t ns $query`;

but as /usr/bin doenst exist on windows servers, it wont run.. but i have no idea where else to point it.. DAMN M$