Hi folks, I have a PHP apps who let people listen to audio files. Those files are mainly store on the hard drive of the server. But the old ones are backed up on DVD and purged from the hard drive. I need to offer the possibility to listen to the files on the DVD. So, I have tried different things: I have added an alias in Apache configuration pointing to the DVD drive. The problem is that as Apache validate is configuration on start, if there is no disk in the drive, the service refuses to start. This implied that we ALWAYS had to have a disk in the drive in case of a server reboot. This solution was not retained after the test phase. One of the other things that I have tried is to add an entry in the PHP application configuration so we can configure the path to the DVD drive. With that approach, Apache is always able to start correctly. I can also listen to the files stores on the DVD. The problem comes when I try to access to file on the DVD drive and there is no disk in the drive. All the functions I have tried (file_exists(), is_dir(), etc.) make a message box to appear on the server (There is no disk in the drive, blabla... Abort, Retry, Ignore). This cause the session on the client to hangs (waiting for the message box on the server). I have not been able to suppress or prevent the message box to appear. Writing a restoration application, is out of scope (not enough time left on the project). Moving to PHP5 to have better error handling to. Have any of you had to work on accessing removable media? My server conf.: Windows 2000 server SP4 Apache 2.0.50 PHP 4.3.3 The DVD drive is DVD-RAM Best regards. Styve -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
