I am running a webapplication on Windows Server 2012 and have to run an endless loop in a PHP file. In order to control this, I created two batch files.
The PHP file:
<?php
while(true) {
sleep(10);
}
?>
BatchFile that calls the PHP file:
TITLE WatchdogStarterBATCH
php "%~dp0watchdog.php"
timeout 5
Batchfile 2
@ECHO OFF
:: Detect whether program is running
for /f "tokens=2 delims=," %%P in ('tasklist /v /fo csv ^| findstr /i "WatchdogStarterBATCH"') do set pid=%%~P
IF [%pid%] == [] (
:: Program not running, trying to restart
start "WatchdogStarterBATCH" "%~dp0WatchdogStarter.bat"
timeout 5
GOTO rerun
) ELSE (
:: Program is running
GOTO end
)
:rerun
:: Check whether program is running now
for /f "tokens=2 delims=," %%P in ('tasklist /v /fo csv ^| findstr /i "WatchdogStarterBATCH"') do set pid=%%~P
IF [%pid%] == [] (
:: Restart failed, log to database
php "%~dp0WatchdogErrorLogger.php"
) ELSE (
:: Restart successful, log to database
php "%~dp0WatchdogWarningLogger.php"
GOTO end
)
:end
echo Done.
timeout 5
Batchfile 2 is called by the Task Scheduler and then calles WatchdogStarter.bat as you can see. It tries to give this service a name, so that it can find it later in the tasklist.
Things I tried:
- Run batfile2 from command line and check if i can find it the string "WatchdogStarterBATCH" in the tasklist. I was able to find it, so that works.
- Try assigning a name in the 'start' command I used, but that did not help.
- Try assigning a name in the first batch file with 'TITLE', but that did not help.