I want to run tomcat's startup.sh with php exec().

[linguafranca]

Hi!

 

I should mention that I'm horrible at php. I did my googling, and asked somebody before coming here though. Anyhow, I'm stuck, and I need help.

 

I'd like to run Tomcat's '/bin/startup.sh' startup script with php (BTW, Tomcat - a java "server"; it is run by executing the forementioned script). When I write:

 echo exec('MY_PATH/tomcat6/bin/startup.sh'); 

I get the response that "At least one of these environment variable is needed to run this program" which looks like the last line of tomcat's common error message:

Neither the JAVA_HOME nor the JRE_HOME environment variable is defined
At least one of these environment variable is needed to run this program

 

When I run:

 echo exec('export JRE_HOME=MY_PRECIOUS_PATH');

it neither helps nor returns anything.

 

Is it possible to set an environment variable for www-data account with php?

Thanks in advance!

 

[marklarah]

exec() is actually disabled by most shared hosts, and im not sure if by default. It poses some security risks. I had the same problem. If you are not shared, edit php.ini. you might find thats the problem. If it isn't, im not really sure, sorry.

 

[keeB]

http://us.php.net/putenv

 

It works.

[keeB]

Example:

 

putenv("JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jdk");