Question
Shell_exec on Ubuntu 16 and nginx
- Posted on February 14, 2018
- NginxLinux CommandsUbuntu 16.04
Asked by EdWrede
Hi there.
I am running Ubuntu 16.04 with nginx and php7-fpm.
I am try to run a shell_exec command from a PHP file. However, the command just isn’t executing. No errors are being written to the nginx error log, quite simply, just nothing happens.
I assume that I need to enable shell_exec somewhere but I am not sure where.
If someone could point me in the right direction, I’d really appreciate it.
Thanks so much, Ed.
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Hi @Woet PHP has been setup to run globally, I can execute it from the command line without issue, so I don’t believe it’s the PHP path.
Can you help me modify that line of code to write to a external error log perhaps? Thank you!
Hi @Woet I’ve just tried an absolute path to the file, the command is below:
shell_exec(‘php /var/www/x/mailTemplates/execMailBM.php ’ . escapeshellarg(serialize($mailParams)) . ’ > /dev/null 2>/dev/null &’);
It didn’t make a difference, same result.
@Woet I don’t actually know what that is doing to be honest, it’s a line of code I am reusing. What should I modify that to? Thank you.