Posted by jonathan.beckett on 02/03/06 14:35

Hi all,

We have PHP 4 installed on Windows 2003 with Apache 2, and the
shell_exec has mysteriously stopped working - it hangs the page rather
then returning anything.

To check it out, I tried shell_exec("dir") which works fine on the
development machine, but not on the live server.

I'm guessing the network guys have done something to the security of
the live server that would cause this - but it's very strange; why
would Apache (running under the default system account) not allow PHP
to run shell_exec statements?

I have checked PHP and it's not in safe mode.

I'm a bit stuck - any ideas would be appreciated...

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