php-cgi.exe - No Disk error

[gro...@nztm.net]

Hi,

When I download and run PHP Desktop a box appears with the following error message initially and on every page navigation:

php-cgi.exe - No Disk
There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive F:.

There are several references to this problem, e.g.:

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68312
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28390763/php-error-there-is-no-disk-in-the-drive

However the solution proposed is to remap the drive. I don't see how that is a reasonable answer, PHP shouldn't have anything to do with that drive letter. Isn't there a better solution for this issue?

Thanks

[Czarek Tomczak]

I've also encountered this issue just a few days ago. I had a pendrive attached to F: and after removing it the error disappeared. This was with PHP 5.4. Have you tried with other php versions 5.5? 5.6? By default PHP Desktop comes with settings to display php startup errors, in php.ini the option is named "display_startup_errors", try changing its value to Off:

display_startup_errors=On 

Try also disabling the "display_errors" option. 

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[Tim]

Thanks for your reply Czarek, I'm using the latest version available for download so it's PHP 5.6. I tried changing both those options and unfortunately it doesn't have any effect on this error.

I appreciate that it's probably a PHP problem instead of a PHP Desktop problem, but if you or anyone else has an idea how to make an application that doesn't display this error I would be keen to hear.

Thanks!

[Czarek Tomczak]

It might be possible to fix it by modifying the way Mongoose web server launches the php-cgi.exe process. I bet there should be an option to run the process in "silent" mode so that it doesn't display any dialogs.

Here is the mongoose source code in question:

https://code.google.com/p/phpdesktop/source/browse/phpdesktop-chrome/mongoose.c#1378

MSDN docs for CreateProcess():

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms682425(v=vs.85).aspx

Maybe passing the CREATE_NO_WINDOW flag to CreateProcess() will fix the problem:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/780647/623622

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[Tim]

Thanks for the helpful reply Czarek!

I actually have no experience with C++ but the build instructions are very straightforward so I was able to do it.

I can't say whether the flag you mentioned is a solution or not, because the version I built unmodified works fine and doesn't cause the error. So I guess it's a solution anyway!  :)

Thanks very much, I'm looking forward to trying this out.
Tim

[Czarek Tomczak]

That's strange. You should test it out on at least one other computer that has an F: drive to make sure.

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[Czarek Tomczak]

Looks to me that when building from sources you've downloaded newer php binaries that do not have this issue.

[Tim]

I used the latest VC11 x86 Non Thread Safe version which was v5.6.10 and dated this month.
The stable release looks to be using v5.6.1 so yes it's definitely an updated version.

I'll see if I can find a way to try it on another machine with an empty F: drive.