soffice command not execute in php shell_exec()

Question

I have run this command in shell_exe() function as shown below:

shell_exec('/usr/bin/soffice --headless --convert-to html:HTML --outdir /home/admin/Desktop/ /home/admin/Desktop/text.docx');

But it gives me error like this in apache error log:

Error: Please reverify input parameters...

Just to clarify: Does this command work *on the server*? – caylee Dec 13 '17 at 06:19 — caylee, Dec 13 '17 at 06:19
@xanoetux yes this command works fine. – Jigar Pancholi Dec 13 '17 at 06:20 — Jigar Pancholi, Dec 13 '17 at 06:20
@xanoetux safe mode is not active. – Jigar Pancholi Dec 13 '17 at 06:28 — Jigar Pancholi, Dec 13 '17 at 06:28

ino · Answer 1 · 2017-12-13T06:52:03.043

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The error you have received is not PHP / apache related.

It is an soffice output.

So shell_exec() works without problems even the executed command returned an output that was passed back to the shell_exec() function.

To receive the error output is better to use exec() function instead of shell_exec()

edited Dec 13 '17 at 06:52

answered Dec 13 '17 at 06:28

ino

This error is coming from php. I have seen in apache error log. ```soffice``` command works well in terminal directly. – Jigar Pancholi Dec 13 '17 at 06:34
Try redirecting the error output to the standard output using `2>&1` – ino Dec 13 '17 at 06:37
The same error is being displayed in browser which is shown in error.log. – Jigar Pancholi Dec 13 '17 at 06:54
Still the error is coming from soffice.. not from PHP. Apache only deliver the message from CLI back to your application and print it. – ino Dec 13 '17 at 06:57
But how can you know that error is coming from soffice not from php. Please let me know. – Jigar Pancholi Dec 13 '17 at 06:59
Read the answer above and click on the first url to get more details. – ino Dec 13 '17 at 07:05
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/161083/discussion-between-jigar-pancholi-and-ino). – Jigar Pancholi Dec 13 '17 at 07:05

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