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Thursday, 06 October 2011 12:49 CDT

Neilz

I've been using Akeeba Remote Control to do automated backups of 7 sites I maintain. It worked fine under Windows 7, still does, but I'm getting a note that 4.0.9 is out, and when I try to download, it gives me an error.

SO, I'm looking at moving to Akeeba Remote CLI. Now, the question becomes, what's the best way to run it? I have PHP for Windows installed, but not being very knowledgeable about using PHP in a command line under Windows, when I try to run the connection test, I get an error 'could not open file'.

I've got remote.phar directly under the PHP directory, and the Windows path= shows that directory as being in it, so the file should be visible.

So ... advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Neil Z.

Friday, 07 October 2011 02:34 CDT

nicholas

Hi Neil,

I had to read your post a few times to understand what's going on. Your problem is an assumption you made. You assumed that by placing the Remote CLI's Phar archive in the path you can access it from anywhere. This is not exactly the case in Windows.

Let's say that you have installed PHP in c:\Program Files\PHP and you placed remote.phar in that directory. Assuming that you have placed that directory in your PATH, in order to run Remote CLI, you need to type a command like

php.exe "c:\Program Files\PHP\remote.phar" options

where options is the list of command line switches you need to pass to Remote CLI. For example: [/code]php.exe "c:\Program Files\PHP\remote.phar" --action=test --host=http://www.example.com --secret=iloveakeeba[/code] to test the connection to the server.

If you have a firewall, you must also allow php.exe to be able to connect to the Internet. Most software firewalls have an "interactive mode". If you enable it, as soon as Remote CLI tries to connect to the remote server the firewall will prompt you if you want to allow connection to the Internet for php.exe. Just say yes.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Friday, 07 October 2011 10:13 CDT

Neilz

OK .. didn't realize that PHP may not pickup the Windows PATH information for use by a calling script.

I moved the remote.phar to its own directory and then proceeded to call it from there, here's what I get.

C:\Users\Neil>php "c:\remotecli\remote.phar" --action=test --host=http://www.xxxxxxxx.org --secret=xxxxxxxxx

Warning: require_once(phar://remote.phar/arccli_version.php): failed to open stream: phar error: invalid url or non-existent phar "phar://remote.phar/arccli_version.php" in phar://C:/RemoteCLI/remote.phar/remote.php on line 17

Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required 'phar://remote.phar/arccli_version.php' (include_path='phar://C:\RemoteCLI\remote.phar;.;C:\Program Files (x86)\PHP\pear') in phar://C:/RemoteCLI/remote.phar/remote.php on line 17

However, doing a CD to the RemoteCLI directory and running it, I get this:

C:\RemoteCLI>php c:\RemoteCLI\remote.phar --action=test --host=http://www.xxxxxxxx.org --secret=xxxxxxxxxx
Akeeba Remote Control CLI 1.1 (2011-08-16)
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Friday, 07 October 2011 14:24 CDT

nicholas

Ah, yes, I forgot about that :s You have to be in the same directory on Windows, otherwise PHP can't figure out the relative paths inside the PHAR archive. Creating a bat file is probably the best approach and you can place it in your path to be able to execute it from anywhere :)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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