Running Linux command from snippet (ImageMagik)

Hi Guys,

Im trying to run a command from linux from within a snippet, with no joy so far.

Any guidance on how to do this? So far the approach ive tried is adding the below command into a snippet

exec('convert http://domain.com/image.jpg /var/www/imageOutput.jpg');

Ive tried shell_exec also with no joy.

Any assistance appreciated.

Hello,

Any reason why you don't use phpthumbof to handle the image conversions? Also if shell_exec isn't working your host may have it disabled.

Probably because your host have disabled shell access in the php.ini, i wouldn't think that they'd enable it for you since having shell access enabled is a huge security risk.

I've seen people posting on many forums that they were hacked and that they had discovered a r57shell within their userdir with lots of wierd files, most of them have had luck because shell access were disabled by their host. [ed. note: bowkilled last edited this post 14 years, 3 months ago.]