PHP exec and Terminal

#26798

Hi there

Using a string as a parameter to pass to PHP’s exec() function appears to not do anthing for me, but copying and pasting the string into Terminal creates the PDF as I require.

I would like to debug it to see whats up, but I can’t work out from the docs how to do this.

This is my string:

cd; java -debug -Djava.awt.headless=true -Xmx512m -Xbootclasspath/a:ss_css2.jar -jar pd4ml.jar 'http://domain/test.php?id=x' -out /tmp/50b75b0abc95e.pdf

Any help would be gratefully received.

I’m sure its not a user permission as I had something working earlier.

#29160

It turned out, that the apache user was having issues reading the JAR file, but not reporting it.

So, in the exec I now cd into the correct folder (explicitly) and it works fine.

Just took a lot of working out as I had no real error information, until I worked out which user apache was running under (_www) and running the command as that user.

Incase anyone else has this issue…

#29161

Glad you solved the issue and thank you for the sharing of the solution with us!

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