Run serverside application with script

[brian8544]

Good evening EmuCoach community,

Does anyone know if it's possible to run a server-side application with Windows through clicking a button on a website, perhaps anyone knows the technical name for it? I've checked AJAX but it looks like that only serves web-like stuff (php scripts as example).

What I'm trying to say, or like explain is:

<button type="button">Start notepad</button> by clicking this button it should start notepad.exe on the server machine serving the webpage.


Any input, information regarding this is greatly appreciated!

 

[brian8544]

Found out how to do it, thought it had to do something with CGI, but after looking into some forums, i found out how to do it.

This script will run Notepad.exe on a Windows 11 machine running XAMPP Apache2 webservice. I don't know if it's safe, but if anyone is curious on how to:

<?php echo "<h2>Launching app in Windows</h2>"; echo "Trying to execute Notepad...<br>"; shell_exec('notepad.exe'); ?>