wine: chdir to /.wine : No such file or directory

[teleppo]

I installed wine on Debian 8 64 bit. I logged as user `tom` to SSH and I can windows console applications just fine from this location:

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/home/tom/domains/mydomain.com/public_html/

However then I made a PHP script put in on domain owned by `tom`:

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mydomain.com/script.php

and visites the page in a browser. And wine doesn't work from PHP. It just shows this:

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wine: chdir to /.wine
 : No such file or directory

The PHP code is just:

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exec('wine application.exe');

I am running Apache webserver. I am not sure which user is the Apache running as. When I put a PHP script on domain owned by `tom` and put there code:

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file_put_contents('test.txt', 'Hello');

it creates test.txt in:

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/home/tom/domains/mydomain.com/public_html/

and this new file is owned by `tom`. So I guess Apache is running PHP scripts as the user who owns the domain.

I tried running wine from PHP with full paths, like this:

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/usr/bin/wine /home/tom/domains/mydomain.com/public_html/application.exe

but this gives exactly same error:

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wine: chdir to /.wine
 : No such file or directory

There is .wine directory under:

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/home/tom/domains/mydomain.com/public_html/

So I guess that Apache is not really running scripts as `tom` but instead some other user and .wine directory must be placed in home directory of this other user. But which user should it be?

[dimesio]

So I guess that Apache is not really running scripts as `tom` but instead some other user and .wine directory must be placed in home directory of this other user. But which user should it be?

That's not really a Wine question; it's an Apache question. Some ways to find out the answer: https://serverfault.com/questions/12586 ... running-as.

[teleppo]

Wine says:

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wine: chdir to /.wine
 : No such file or directory

can I force it to give me absolute path instead of relative?

[teleppo]

Finally I found out Apache's user is 'apache' but due to some permission issues I can't put .wine directory in home directory of this user. So how can I give Wine a different location to it's .wine directory?

[dimesio]

https://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#Can_I_store ... 2F.wine.3F

[teleppo]

Thank you. I did this and works just fine:
exec('env WINEPREFIX=/home/tom/.wine wine application.exe');