[RESOLVED] Linux Command within PHP?

[ryclem]

I have generated a .txt file and FTP'd it to the tmp ftp directory setup in php.ini. I now need to move it to another location. I have tried to execute a linux command from within PHP to no avail.

Here is the section of code:

if (exec("cp -r /home/admin/merchantad.txt /home/httpd/vhosts/sunfriendlyproducts.com/httpdocs/merchantad_df/merchantad.txt") == TRUE)
{ print "FTP Successful!!!";}
else
{ print "There was a problem with the FTP and moving of the file!";}

		unlink($source);

Any ideas on how to get this to work or another way to move or copy the file?

Thanks.

[etully]

Have you checked the read permissions on the text file? And the write permissions on the destination directory? On my machine, PHP runs as Apache so I'd need to make sure that Apache can write to that directory.

I assume that you've checked to see if you can ssh into the box.

If you just need to do this as a one time thing, you could talk to whoever has root access to the box. I know that they could move it for you.

[ryclem]

I need it to move the file everytime the script creates it. The command works fine from SSH and I set all the CHMOD's to 777 for the directories in question, I just can't get it to work from the PHP script.

I'm going to play around with the copy command as well. There must be a simple way to do this.

[ryclem]

I was able to adjust my permissions and FTP it directly into the folder that I needed.

Thanks.