Okay update, i'm now calling php-cli.exe (thanks for that) and now i get this which is an improvment on th last one but still some way from being good. Does this suggest to anyone what the problem might be?

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in c:\phpdev\www\CMAwiki\mainte nance\commandLine.inc on line 161 Dropping index... A database error has occurred Query: ALTER TABLE `searchindex` DROP INDEX si_title, DROP INDEX si_text Function: dropTextIndex Error: 1044 Access denied for user: 'caspar@127.0.0.1' to database 'wikidb' (loc alhost)

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