Dear all,
Please can you help me with a problem I’ve been trying to solve for the last couple of days. I can’t find a solution that works. I’m using php5, on an apache server, sat on Amazon Web Services.
I am trying to get a php script “callbash.php” (called via ajax with some data) from “index.php” to call a bash script “bashcript.sh”. The bash script makes a directory [within a subdirectory called “tmp”], copies some images in to it, and then modifies the images.
The call to the script $scriptcall works correctly when I call it from the command line
scriptcall
Within callbash.php I’m executing the script using
shell_exec( $scriptcall );
But it fails to produce the same results.
I’ve also tried shell_exec('sudo '.$scriptcall);
For testing purposes (only) I’ve opened up the security
chmod 777 index.php callbash.php bashcript.sh
and I’ve also set the directory that the scripts sit in, and the subdirectory “tmp” to 777.
I’ve tried changing the owner of the scripts, and directories to www, www-data, root,…
Nothing seems to work. Am I missing something obvious, perhaps a php setting?
Thanks in advance, and warm regards,
Ben.