Exec is not working

Question

I am trying to automate magmi with a script

<?php
class Trainingsatyendra_Feedback_IndexController extends Mage_Core_Controller_Front_Action
{
        public function indexAction()
        {

    exec('localhost/practice/magmi/web/magmi_run.php?mode=create&pr
    ofile=default&engine=magmi_productimportengine:Magmi_ProductImportEngine&CSV:f
    ilename=catalog_product_20130422_073721.csv',$result);
        var_dump($result);
         if($result)
        {
        echo "shell successfully executed";
        }
        else
        echo "shell Not executed";

        } 
    }

    ?>

The above code is written in my controller file. when i copy and paste the the below code in browser url it works giving me output on the browser

localhost/practice/magmi/web/magmi_run.php?mode=create&pr
ofile=default&engine=magmi_productimportengine:Magmi_ProductImportEngine&CSV:f
ilename=catalog_product_20130422_073721.csv

However it dosen't work if i try to use exec or shell_exec in my controller.

You don't `exec` scripts on web servers. You do it with executables in your file system. Any program you can run in the command line you should be able to run using `exec`. — Havelock, Apr 23 '13 at 06:54
@chandresh_cool did you mean something like `wget http://localhost...`? — Havelock, Apr 23 '13 at 06:55
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6763997/shell-run-execute-php-script-with-parameters — Mithun Satheesh, Apr 23 '13 at 06:59

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 21 '14 at 17:57

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I was also seeing the same response but after few tries ended up changing the folder permissions to apache:apache the user which the service apache was running with and it worked.

answered Jan 21 '14 at 17:57

Lee

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 23 '13 at 07:03

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According to the documentation you either have to use wget, i.e.

exec('wget http://localhost/practice/magmi/web/magmi_run.php?mode=create&profile=default&engine=magmi_productimportengine:Magmi_ProductImportEngine&CSV:filename=catalog_product_20130422_073721.csv');

or use an appropriate cli command, i.e.

exec('magmi [cli_command']);

or maybe even better you use cURL to fetch whatever is needed over HTTP(S).

answered Apr 23 '13 at 07:03

Havelock

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No, the above soln is not working not wget nor cURL is working – Satyendra Mishra Apr 23 '13 at 07:15

Exec is not working

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