Execute a shell script with php

Question

I need to execute a shell script through php. I am using Apache web server to run my php pages.

Here is my php file:

<?php

$output = shell_exec('sh /usr/local/hadoop-3.0.2/copytoallhdfs.sh');

echo "<pre>" . $output . "</pre>";

?>

Here is my shell script  copytoallhdfs.sh:

#!/bin/bash

myarray=`bin/hdfs dfs -ls -C /`

echo $myarray;
for name in $myarray
do bin/hdfs dfs -copyFromLocal myData/* $name;
done

My  copytoallhdfs.sh script is located on the path /usr/local/hadoop-3.0.2​ .  So normally php should be executing my shell script and displaying the output of echo $myarray; on the web server, but nothing is displaying on my browser.

Maybe it is some permissions problems or something missing in my php.ini but i just can't solve this problem. 
Can anyone please give me a work around for this. 

Thank you.

Answer 1

One of the possible reason for this is exec is disabled in the php.ini. In the php.ini file search for ​

disable_functions

And if it has exec, then remove exec from it and try again. See if it works

Comments

Hello @omkar , thank you for the suggestion. Actually the problem was something very simple. 
I edited the copytoallhdfs.sh script and added pwd to verify the location that php is giving me. Then i realized that it was giving me the location of my apache directory even though the file was located in my hadoop directory.

So i updated the copytoallhdfs.sh script and inserted the full path to execute the command bin/hdfs and it worked. 

Here is my updated script:

#!/bin/bash

myarray=`/usr/local/hadoop-3.0.2/bin/hdfs dfs -ls -C /`
echo $myarray;

for name in $myarray
do /usr/local/hadoop-3.0.2/bin/hdfs dfs -copyFromLocal /usr/local/hadoop-3.0.2/myData/* $name;
done

That was kind of a silly mistake, but i guess it can happen!
Thanks for your help.

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You're welcome :)