Running PHP scripts from command-line with WAMP (Windows Apache, MySQL, PHP)

On my old pc I installed Apache, MySQL and PHP singularly, and I made some PHP scripts to be runned from command-line, like this:

c:\php\php -f myscript.php

On my new pc I installed WAMP5 1.6.4, all was running fine (phpMyAdmin, my local website, php scripts pointed to by the browser) but php scripts launched by command-line reported

Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect() in myscript.php

Obviously I changed the php path to c:\wamp\php\php but with no results.
Solution: change the command to

c:\wamp\php\php -c c:\wamp\apache2\bin -f myscript.php

The -c option tells php to search php.ini in the directory specified, and that's needed because WAMP puts php.ini in Apache bin directory, while with a PHP regular installation php.ini is located in the php.exe directory.

  

Posted by: Z24 | Wed, May 04 2011 | Category: /configurations/windows | Permanent link | home
Tagged as: apache, configuration

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