Problem with php script from php page

[kimosabi]

I have the following problem:

I have a mailing list system which the administrator logs into and composes a mailout. He/she then submits it where my php web page gathers the form data and then uses the exec() function call to call a php script (top line of which is #!/path/to/php/cgi). My development server php runs as an apache module where the process works properly but the live server runs php as a cgi where the process does not work. The page seems to time out on the system/exec function call. I can however run the php script manually from the command line but again not calling it from a page.

Has anyone else encountered this problem? Is it to do with the --with-exec-dir and --enable-safe-mode?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Kim

[Anon]

If it had anything to do with --with-exec-dir or --enable-safe-mode you'd receive a fatal error...
perhaps it's a filesystem security thing

[Anon]

I have the same problem. I tracked down that it is a problem encountered when PHP is installed as a module.

I am facing the same problem.

The real problem is that the user and group that apache is running as is falling back to the generic user/group specified in httpd.conf, rather than using the user and group that is specified in the VirtualHost settings.

This only seems to affect PHP as I can execute cgi and perl files and the user/group is stays right, but when I execute something from a php page it reverts back to u:www/g:www and therefore fails cos that user doesn't have permission for what I need the script to do.

I do not have an answer but hopefully someone out there does.

Cyberfez