hi,
i am runnning a php script where i try to decompress a file and the untar it.
the file in suppose x.tar.gz. so in my php script i call system command
system("gunzip /home/trial/x.tar.gz");
now to untar i use
system("tar xvf /home/trial/x.tar");
now the error creeps in. i am able to decompress the file i.e in /home/trial/x.tar is formed but when i try to untar it the result in shown in the webpage(running the php script) instead of untaring it in the /home/trial folder).
can anyone help?
umm.. I am not sure about this. But shouldn't system("tar xvf /home/trial/x.tar"); be system("tar xvf /home/trial/x.tar.gz"); ?
creating is czvf for .tar.gz
xzvf - Xtract,Zip,Verbose,File
czvf - Create,Zip,Verbose,File
just man tar
try the exec() function
have already done that without much success. also tried passthru() ...no much success
what OS is installed there?
what OS is installed there?
Linux 2.4.18-3
what about the php version?
what about the php version?
php- 4.4.4
apache-1.3.37
right. if you try something simple, like create a directory in the root, set it with 777 permissions, and under php do something like:
exec("echo helloworld > /testdir/test.txt");
does that work? it all sounds like a matter of permissions of the user php is running under to me
right. if you try something simple, like create a directory in the root, set it with 777 permissions, and under php do something like:
exec("echo helloworld > /testdir/test.txt");does that work? it all sounds like a matter of permissions of the user php is running under to me
no it doesn't work.no file is created. But if i create a file test.txt and set the permissions of this file to 0777 then run the php script , later when i open the file it shows that the file is of one line but nothing is written
has to be a permissions thing. look into what user your php is running
how do i check that?
should be somewhere in phpinfo();
this is the output of phpinfo()
/**********************************************************************
PHP Version 4.4.4
System Linux via 2.4.24 #3 Thu Dec 9 11:27:40 KST 2004 i686
Build Date Feb 1 2008 09:34:26
Configure Command './configure' '--prefix=/usr/local/apache' '--exec-prefix=/usr/local/apache' '--with-apache=/home/karabi/backup/apache_1.3.37' '--with-mysql' '--enable-sysvmsg' '--enable-ftp'
Server API Apache
Virtual Directory Support disabled
Configuration File (php.ini) Path /usr/local/apache/lib
PHP API 20020918
PHP Extension 20020429
Zend Extension 20050606
Debug Build no
Zend Memory Manager enabled
Thread Safety disabled
Registered PHP Streams php, http, ftp
This program makes use of the Zend Scripting Language Engine:
Zend Engine v1.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Zend Technologies
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PHP Credits
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Configuration
PHP Core
Directive Local Value Master Value
allow_call_time_pass_reference On On
allow_url_fopen On On
always_populate_raw_post_data Off Off
arg_separator.input & &
arg_separator.output & &
asp_tags Off Off
auto_append_file no value no value
auto_prepend_file no value no value
browscap no value no value
default_charset no value no value
default_mimetype text/html text/html
define_syslog_variables Off Off
disable_classes no value no value
disable_functions no value no value
display_errors On On
display_startup_errors Off Off
doc_root no value no value
docref_ext no value no value
docref_root no value no value
enable_dl On On
error_append_string no value no value
error_log no value no value
error_prepend_string no value no value
error_reporting no value no value
expose_php On On
extension_dir /usr/local/apache/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429 /usr/local/apache/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429
file_uploads On On
gpc_order GPC GPC
highlight.bg #FFFFFF #FFFFFF
highlight.comment #FF8000 #FF8000
highlight.default #0000BB #0000BB
highlight.html #000000 #000000
highlight.keyword #007700 #007700
highlight.string #DD0000 #DD0000
html_errors On On
ignore_repeated_errors Off Off
ignore_repeated_source Off Off
ignore_user_abort Off Off
implicit_flush Off Off
include_path .:/usr/local/apache/lib/php .:/usr/local/apache/lib/php
log_errors Off Off
log_errors_max_len 1024 1024
magic_quotes_gpc On On
magic_quotes_runtime Off Off
magic_quotes_sybase Off Off
max_execution_time 30 30
max_input_time -1 -1
open_basedir no value no value
output_buffering 0 0
output_handler no value no value
post_max_size 8M 8M
precision 14 14
register_argc_argv On On
register_globals Off Off
report_memleaks On On
safe_mode Off Off
safe_mode_exec_dir /usr/local/php/bin /usr/local/php/bin
safe_mode_gid Off Off
safe_mode_include_dir no value no value
sendmail_from no value no value
sendmail_path /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i
serialize_precision 100 100
short_open_tag On On
SMTP localhost localhost
smtp_port 25 25
sql.safe_mode Off Off
track_errors Off Off
unserialize_callback_func no value no value
upload_max_filesize 2M 2M
upload_tmp_dir no value no value
user_dir no value no value
variables_order no value no value
xmlrpc_error_number 0 0
xmlrpc_errors Off Off
y2k_compliance On On
apache
APACHE_INCLUDE no value
APACHE_TARGET no value
Apache Version Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) PHP/4.4.4
Apache Release 10337100
Apache API Version 19990320
Hostname:Port 127.0.0.1:80
User/Group nobody(65534)/65534
Max Requests Per Child: 0 - Keep Alive: on - Max Per Connection: 100
Timeouts Connection: 300 - Keep-Alive: 15
Server Root /usr/local/apache
Loaded Modules mod_php4, mod_setenvif, mod_auth, mod_access, mod_alias, mod_userdir, mod_actions, mod_imap, mod_asis, mod_cgi, mod_dir, mod_autoindex, mod_include, mod_status, mod_negotiation, mod_mime, mod_log_config, mod_env, http_core
Directive Local Value Master Value
child_terminate 0 0
engine 1 1
last_modified 0 0
xbithack 0 0
Apache Environment
Variable Value
DOCUMENT_ROOT /usr/local/apache/htdocs
HTTP_ACCEPT application/x-shockwave-flash, image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, application/x-silverlight, */*
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip, deflate
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE en-us
HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL max-age=259200
HTTP_CONNECTION keep-alive
HTTP_HOST 172.24.3.226
HTTP_UA_CPU x86
HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
HTTP_VIA 1.1 localhost.localdomain:8080 (squid/2.5.STABLE3)
HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR 172.24.3.90
PATH /root/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin
REMOTE_ADDR 172.24.1.17
REMOTE_PORT 38970
SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/local/apache/htdocs/info.php
SERVER_ADDR 172.24.3.226
SERVER_ADMIN karabi@localhost.localdomain
SERVER_NAME 127.0.0.1
SERVER_PORT 80
SERVER_SIGNATURE <ADDRESS>Apache/1.3.37 Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 80</ADDRESS>
SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) PHP/4.4.4
GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1
SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.0
REQUEST_METHOD GET
QUERY_STRING no value
REQUEST_URI /info.php
SCRIPT_NAME /info.php
HTTP Headers Information
HTTP Request Headers
HTTP Request GET /info.php HTTP/1.0
Accept application/x-shockwave-flash, image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, application/x-silverlight, */*
Accept-Encoding gzip, deflate
Accept-Language en-us
Cache-Control max-age=259200
Connection keep-alive
Host 172.24.3.226
UA-CPU x86
User-Agent Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Via 1.1 localhost.localdomain:8080 (squid/2.5.STABLE3)
X-Forwarded-For 172.24.3.90
HTTP Response Headers
X-Powered-By PHP/4.4.4
Connection close
Content-Type text/html
ctype
ctype functions enabled
ftp
FTP support enabled
mysql
MySQL Support enabled
Active Persistent Links 0
Active Links 0
Client API version 3.23.49
MYSQL_MODULE_TYPE builtin
MYSQL_SOCKET /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
MYSQL_INCLUDE no value
MYSQL_LIBS no value
Directive Local Value Master Value
mysql.allow_persistent On On
mysql.connect_timeout 60 60
mysql.default_host no value no value
mysql.default_password no value no value
mysql.default_port no value no value
mysql.default_socket no value no value
mysql.default_user no value no value
mysql.max_links Unlimited Unlimited
mysql.max_persistent Unlimited Unlimited
mysql.trace_mode Off Off
overload
User-Space Object Overloading Support enabled
pcre
PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) Support enabled
PCRE Library Version 6.6 06-Feb-2006
posix
Revision $Revision: 1.51.2.4.2.1 $
session
Session Support enabled
Registered save handlers files user
Directive Local Value Master Value
session.auto_start Off Off
session.bug_compat_42 On On
session.bug_compat_warn On On
session.cache_expire 180 180
session.cache_limiter nocache nocache
session.cookie_domain no value no value
session.cookie_lifetime 0 0
session.cookie_path / /
session.cookie_secure Off Off
session.entropy_file no value no value
session.entropy_length 0 0
session.gc_divisor 100 100
session.gc_maxlifetime 1440 1440
session.gc_probability 1 1
session.name PHPSESSID PHPSESSID
session.referer_check no value no value
session.save_handler files files
session.save_path /tmp /tmp
session.serialize_handler php php
session.use_cookies On On
session.use_only_cookies Off Off
session.use_trans_sid Off Off
standard
Regex Library Bundled library enabled
Dynamic Library Support enabled
Path to sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i
Directive Local Value Master Value
assert.active 1 1
assert.bail 0 0
assert.callback no value no value
assert.quiet_eval 0 0
assert.warning 1 1
auto_detect_line_endings 0 0
default_socket_timeout 60 60
safe_mode_allowed_env_vars PHP_ PHP_
safe_mode_protected_env_vars LD_LIBRARY_PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH
url_rewriter.tags a=href,area=href,frame=src,form=,fieldset= a=href,area=href,frame=src,form=,fieldset=
user_agent no value no value
sysvmsg
sysvmsg support enabled
Revision $Revision: 1.4.2.5.2.3 $
tokenizer
Tokenizer Support enabled
xml
XML Support active
XML Namespace Support active
EXPAT Version 1.95.6
Additional Modules
Module Name
Environment
Variable Value
LOGNAME root
REMOTEHOST 172.24.3.90
MAIL /var/spool/mail/root
TERM xterm
HOSTTYPE i386
PATH /root/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin
HOME /root
SHELL /bin/sh
PS1 #
USER root
DISPLAY 172.24.3.90:0.0
OSTYPE Linux
SHLVL 1
_ ./httpd
PHP Variables
Variable Value
_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] /usr/local/apache/htdocs
_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT"] application/x-shockwave-flash, image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, application/x-silverlight, */*
_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING"] gzip, deflate
_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"] en-us
_SERVER["HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL"] max-age=259200
_SERVER["HTTP_CONNECTION"] keep-alive
_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"] 172.24.3.226
_SERVER["HTTP_UA_CPU"] x86
_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"] Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
_SERVER["HTTP_VIA"] 1.1 localhost.localdomain:8080 (squid/2.5.STABLE3)
_SERVER["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"] 172.24.3.90
_SERVER["PATH"] /root/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin
_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] 172.24.1.17
_SERVER["REMOTE_PORT"] 38970
_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"] /usr/local/apache/htdocs/info.php
_SERVER["SERVER_ADDR"] 172.24.3.226
_SERVER["SERVER_ADMIN"] karabi@localhost.localdomain
_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"] 127.0.0.1
_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"] 80
_SERVER["SERVER_SIGNATURE"] <ADDRESS>Apache/1.3.37 Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 80</ADDRESS>
_SERVER["SERVER_SOFTWARE"] Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) PHP/4.4.4
_SERVER["GATEWAY_INTERFACE"] CGI/1.1
_SERVER["SERVER_PROTOCOL"] HTTP/1.0
_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] GET
_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"] no value
_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] /info.php
_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"] /info.php
_SERVER["PATH_TRANSLATED"] /usr/local/apache/htdocs/info.php
_SERVER["PHP_SELF"] /info.php
_SERVER["argv"] Array
(
)
_SERVER["argc"] 0
_ENV["LOGNAME"] root
_ENV["REMOTEHOST"] 172.24.3.90
_ENV["MAIL"] /var/spool/mail/root
_ENV["TERM"] xterm
_ENV["HOSTTYPE"] i386
_ENV["PATH"] /root/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin
_ENV["HOME"] /root
_ENV["SHELL"] /bin/sh
_ENV["PS1"] #
_ENV["USER"] root
_ENV["DISPLAY"] 172.24.3.90:0.0
_ENV["OSTYPE"] Linux
_ENV["SHLVL"] 1
_ENV["_"] ./httpd
PHP License
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the PHP License as published by the PHP Group and included in the distribution in the file: LICENSE
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
If you did not receive a copy of the PHP license, or have any questions about PHP licensing, please contact license@php.net.
User/Group nobody(65534)/65534
_ENV says it's root
interesting stuff
i am entangled... not able to get out. evn tried untaring from a unix program by calling the system command from there. but no use.
I'll try to research a bit
1. first of all, php has a native touch() function, try to use that to create a file, and see who is the owner when you do.
2. disable SElinux and try again
1. first of all, php has a native touch() function, try to use that to create a file, and see who is the owner when you do.
2. disable SElinux and try again
i created a file with the touch(), but how do i check for the owner, because the command ll -h filename is not working here. and also about disabling the SElinux, from where do i do it?
ls -a shows full file details
what linux distro are you using there?
http://www.linuxpronews.com/linuxpronews-55-20030523WorkingwithPermissionsinPHPPart2.html
looks like this is your problem. just read the article
look in php.ini for "disabled_functions" exec and others might be in there
as for permissions, i think permissions are ok. because when i put the command
system("tar xvf /home/trial/x.tar");
i get the output in my we page, but not in the directory where i want . if there wud have been permission problem i wudn't have got any output
create a dir
mkdir /testdir
chown -r nobody.nobody /testdir
make php write files in there
i did that but the same results... not able to untar. could it be that the dir/files inside x.tar are owned by root or sumone else n have restricted permissions
We're a friendly, industry-focused community of developers, IT pros, digital marketers, and technology enthusiasts meeting, networking, learning, and sharing knowledge.