phpdesktop - Chromium browser+PHP+WWW (web app)

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xsoft
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phpdesktop - Chromium browser+PHP+WWW (web app)

Post by xsoft »

Hello,
Im trying to make one portable .exe file that contains an Web app (Web server + Chromium + PHP App).

Im using for that:

phpdesktop
https://github.com/cztomczak/phpdesktop

Its basically packed Chromium v130, with PHP and WWW app.

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So far Ive tried over 50 combination and still Im not able to make that work.
So far I have 50+ compilations with all kind of option combination, over last 3 days, but none are working.
Im using ver 11.20 and now also 11.30 (which comes out yesterday).

I tried %DEFAULT_FOLDER%
and Absolute driver X:

As well as options:
all 4 combinations of Max executable, share virtual, allow running, ..

No registry, No packing.

Then DefaulFolder - "Nef Folders and files become real" or "New Folders and files become VIRTUAL" (applied to all, recursively).
No matter what, the Chromium process always somehow escape the virtualFS and eg. "webcache" folder is created all the times.
(I didnt care too much about this folder really).

The issue is that Program (Chromium) is not running at all. Or it dont see all files (so it just run and exit, or it runs and see no WWW files). Funny is that if you run standalone packed .exe at some clean folder, it says it see no files required for the run.
But if you run packed .exe at folder with all files (same extracted folder like a full app), the .exe use those files and runs normally.

I didnt have much luck with %DEFAULT_FOLDER% setting. More likely better results was with like drive X:.

I am here kinda out of luck and choices what to try more. Since none of option works there.

Note that Im on Windows10, with ESET. Antivirus is kinda sketchy, and scans package for a while, but dont block or delete anything. Ive tried that also w/o antivirus, same results.
Enigma
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Re: phpdesktop - Chromium browser+PHP+WWW (web app)

Post by Enigma »

Hi, this kind of application is rather complex, includes sharing virtual environment between multiple processes, processes with different privileges and permissions, so I assume it could be hard to configure correctly (if even possible).
What you have to do mandatory - enable all checkboxes on Options panel.

If nothing helps, can you please send us non packed files at support@enigmaprotector.com for testing of this issue?
xsoft
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Re: phpdesktop - Chromium browser+PHP+WWW (web app)

Post by xsoft »

Thanks. Email with test package and description send.
xsoft
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Re: phpdesktop - Chromium browser+PHP+WWW (web app)

Post by xsoft »

Hello, any news with this PHP Desktop app?
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