[Wine] Running wine via php

[Gert van den Berg]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 23:33, asmith <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> I created another profile for wine in /home/username/.wine/
>
> But my php still uses the root username to access, so it uses wine profile for root.
>
PHP should also not be running as root...

> I think I narrowed down the problem. I have permission issues.
> Wine can run the program itself. but when program.exe wants to start its processing, it fails creating its own temp files or accessing some files it needs on the system.
> When running it directly in shell, it has full access to any file, that's why it works fine. But with php it doesn't.
>
Get the logs!

You can try changing your method for running wine to something like:
/bin/sh -c "<whatever you were running previously> > /tmp/wine_log.txt 2>&1"

Then have a look at the log / post it here....

My wine_with_log script might also help....

http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?p=27438

> chowning wine profile doesn't seem to work.
> How can I move my .wine to another folder? I dont' wanna create another one. Just move this working one to my public_html folder, so that maybe it works there? or just find the option in apache (I use nginx) to give permission to this one.
>
move it, set the WINEPREFIX environment variable to point to it...