Re: shell script not working with shell_exec

It doesn't really do you much by changing the file permission and ownership to Apache. By the way, it would be nobody:nobody when it come to Apache, not apache:apache. What you will need to do is to login using the Apache account from the terminal login and execute the command line code. If it doesn't work then you know the problem had nothing to do with Apache and PHP. Also, some php exec() function sometime require the prefix before it. Like putting in environment variables or something to make it work, such as putenv() for example. This depend on the situation. Scott F. "Chris Overman" <sh298470@12move.nl> wrote in message news:20030814075650.73569.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Hi, > I have a shell script which works when executed from the command line, but > doesn't when executed from PHP with shell_exec. Of course I realize that in > the former case I am 'root' and in the latter 'apache', so I changed every > involved file to have the owner:group apache:apache and also the permissions > on the directories. Without success ... > > There are two commands: > shell_exec("/root/MBROLA/txt2pho/d/txt2pho/txt2pho < > /var/www/html/museum/audio/TTS_1.txt > > /var/www/html/museum/audio/TTS_1.pho"); > > shell_exec("/root/MBROLA/mbrola-linux-i386 /root/MBROLA/voices/d/de3/de3 > /var/www/html/museum/audio/TTS_1.pho /var/www/html/museum/audio/TTS_1.wav"); > > As I installed the txt2pho and mbrola packages under uid root, there are > probably 2 options left: > 1. reinstall these packages under uid apache (? - how can I login as apache > ?) > 2. change the shell_exec uid from apache to root (? - dangerous probably, I > read something about using sudo ?) > > I'm quite stuck now how to proceed. > > Any help is welcome, > Chris. > >