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.
Sorry @Woet I don’t quite understand…
The line of code in question is as follows:
shell_exec(‘php mailTemplates/execMailBM.php ’ . escapeshellarg(serialize($mailParams)) . ’ > /dev/null 2>/dev/null &’);
Thanks,
Ed.
Why are you sending the output to /dev/null if you’re trying to debug it?
I think you needed this:
shell_exec('php mailTemplates/execMailBM.php ' . escapeshellarg(serialize($mailParams)) . ' 2>&1 > /dev/null 2>&1 &');
I had a similar issue with shell_exec("curl") returned NULL. Finally this solved my issue:
$cmd = "curl 'http://myweb.com/data/order.php?id=$ID&data=$data' 2>&1 > /dev/null 2>&1 &";
$cron = exec($cmd);
@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.
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.
Did you try an absolute path to PHP? Does it work when you execute it manually?