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Everything is working except for hello.php.

In the load function I try to obtain the length of the file passed to it as shown, but when hello.php is interpreted and the load function is called, it returns a length of zero for the generated file and thus a 500 Internal Server error when the content is read in the interpret function.

bool load(FILE* file, BYTE** content, size_t* length)
{
    // get file size
    int fileref = fileno(file);
    struct stat st;
    fstat(fileref, &st);
    *length = st.st_size;

    //make space for file content
    *content = malloc(sizeof(BYTE) * *length);

    //reading file into content
    fread(*content, sizeof(BYTE), *length, file);

    if (*content != NULL)
        return true;
    else
        return false;

}

This seems particularly strange because when I check the file that gets passed into it via the interpret function by printing its characters, I see the following:

X-Powered-By: PHP/5.5.9-1ubuntu4.14
Content-type: text/html

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>
    <head>
        <title>hello</title>
    </head>
    <body>
                    hello, Bob            </body>
</html>

How could this return a length of zero?

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That was my initial approach too. Sweet! Or so I thought.....See the section on "interpret" (around page 8) of the instructions.

Odds are you’re unfamiliar with popen. That function opens a "pipe" to a process (php-cgi in our case), which provides us with a FILE pointer via which we can read that process’s standard output (as though it were an actual file).

You cannot use fstat on a pipe (or ftell, fseek etc). It always returns 0. To be more specific, I spent a couple of hours with Mr. Google and couldn't find any way to do it. This post is an interesting discussion on the topic. (And this post too!)

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