php 5.3 (x86 fastcgi) windows server 2k8 (x64) I have spent a good few days googling around and trying things so let me give you the current state. cmd.exe copied to php folder, all instances of cmd.exe, including syswow64, given read execute permissions to domain users, local users, iis_iusrs, network...

I have installed the PHP 5.2.6 on a Windows2008 server with IIS 7. PHP in command line mode works fine, yet when running under IIS, the exec(), system() and "`" calls return no data. The script is: <?php $command = 'cd'; exec($command . ' 2>&1',$output , $return);...