Help! Can't get a script to run...

Anon

This is kind of a weird problem...
My PHP script is calling a script (using backticks) which is local on the webservers filesystem. This script (called my_script) in turn calls a few other scripts (some are bash scripts others are perl scripts.)
If I run the script my_script manually from a terminal window as the user apache it works fine, but when i call it in my PHP script it fails to run (it gets about half way through)

Please help!! Do you have any idea why this is happening????

Thanks!!

brandonschnell

my guess its a permission issue. su as user "nobody" (apache runs by default as this user) and try to call the scripts from the command line.

Anon

Hmmm... my apache does run as apache (i changed the user and group to apache in the httpd.conf)
but even when it ran as nobody i had the same problem...
it is baffling...
anyone else got any ideas????
thanks...

brandonschnell

then add a bunch of debugging echos in the code to narrow the scope of the problem. when the echos fail to show up, look past the last echo to see where the script is failing.

ie:

starting main script.
calling "script2.php"
script2.php has started
calling function 1.

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Or; does the webserver-user know where to find the script-interpreters?

Does it have PERL and sh in it's path (it won't if your setup is secure)