system() dont work with cp or cat.

[Anon]

i have LINUX + APACHE + PHP and i cant
do, system("cp file1 file2") or system("cat file1")?

i try:

chmod 777 with folder and files.
using complete and relative path
system("ls file1") run OK.
system("ls folder_of_file1") run OK.
system("ping anything") run OK.
with exec() have the same result.

i need it because i doing an script for design web pages, and i want to construc the page doing "cat part1 part2 partn > page.html".

Any help?. Thanks.

[Anon]

What happens, why do you say "you can't"? What kind of error message do you get?

Try using complete paths first.. IE not just cat whatever > whatver but cat /usr/local/whatever >/usr/local/whatever

[Anon]

Thanks