Run ./script.sh from PHP - php

I have web server that play music from Raspberry and turn on LED with script gpio.sh.
I am using mpd, mpc and gpio.
My /var/www/index.php :
<html><body><?php
echo exec('whoami');
if(isset($_POST['button1']))
{
shell_exec('mpc play')
shell_exec('/bin/bash /var/www/gpio.sh');
}
?>
<form method="post">
<p align=center>
OUTPUT (AUDIO) => <button name="button1">PLAY</button>
</p>
</form>
</body></html>
In terminal, I can run /bin/bash /var/www/gpio.sh successfully and LED turning on.
From web server 'mpc play' WORKS and can play a song BUT it can't run that gpio.sh .
The owner of index.php is www-data
-rwx------ 1 www-data www-data 1262 Dec 8 10:45 gpio.sh
-rwx------ 1 www-data www-data 272 Dec 9 09:39 index.php
What should I do ? When I change owner of index.php or gpio.sh to root, php can't execute.
Is my index.php wrong?
I can't execute .sh from php.
Please help.

Perfect solution for you would be to set SUID for script gpio.sh but unfortunately
you can't do so as far as gpio.sh is a script.
You have three options:
You can turn your script into the say C++ application and then set SUID
You can use some GPIO lib for python that don't force usage by root like: pigpio
You can set SUID for python interpreter, but I'm not sure its good idea generally

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as you said you are running it like apache->php->shell_exec(SUDO..)
So the apache user has to be in sudoers file, better you don't give sudo to apache instead give apache (www-data) user right to run your python program
put first line in your python script: #!/usr/bin/env python so the script knows which program to open it with..
then
change group:
chgrp www-data /path/to/python-script.py
make it executabel
chmod +x /path/to/python-script.py
try it
shell_exec("/path/to/python-script.py");
I hope it works ;)
TIPP: Apache and PHP are for delivering Documents and Strings, if you want some kind of control and an API start with nodejs and https://www.npmjs.com/package/rpi-gpio package. This way you will have one place for your solid automation environment
This worked for me:
test.php
<?php
echo shell_exec("python test.py");
?>
test.py
f = open("test.txt", "a+")
f.write("hiya buddy!!\n")
f.close()
print "some output"
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jason#Jason-one /var/www/html $ ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 jason jason 44 Sep 20 18:12 test.php
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jason jason 82 Sep 20 17:44 test.py
-rw-rw-rw- 1 jason jason 38 Sep 20 18:15 test.txt
Since I don't have GPIO pins on my laptop, I decided to write to a file as a test. Notice I didn't have to use sudo because of the way I set the permissions on test.py.

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EDIT
So I have found a workaround to this. since I don't know what the cause for the problem, i'd not mark this as an answer, but please vote it to appear at the top.
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[I'd add this as a comment but don't have enough points for it]
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string exec ( string $command [, array &$output [, int &$return_var ]] )
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This is how my python code looks like:
[root#localhost html]# vi brow1.php
<?php
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apache
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I am stuck at this point, Please help!

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