Running php script via Jenkins Execute shell - php

I am trying to run php script via execute shell in Jenkins but it seems i am missing something.
here is my command in execute shell of Jenkins
#!/usr/bin/php
php /home/admin/reports/test.php"
I am not getting any error in console output.
and when i try these commands:
#!/bin/bash
php /home/admin/reports/test.php"
then I get error which says failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/admin/reports/test.php" .

Jenkins, with default installation, will be run under jenkins user. That user has no access to your /home/admin home directory. The Permission denied is pretty self-explanatory.
Either give jenkins user read access to /home/admin (not recommended)
Or place the file into /home/jenkins directory (not best solution either)
Or better yet, have the file available in shared location accessible by both, preferably the job's workspace that is populated through the SCM (recommended).

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running a php script using ansible throws errors

I am trying to run a php script on a remote server using ansible.
Running the script with the ansible user (which ansible uses to login to the server) works perfectly. The ansible task however fails when there are include statements in my php script.
My php script lays in /srv/project
it tries to include includes/someLibrary.php
Everything works fine when running the script as any user with the correct access rights but when running it via an ansible task
- name: run script
shell: 'php /srv/project/script.php'
it fails with: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /srv/project/includes/someLibrary.php
Running a very basic php script works nicely though.
I just found the solution to the problem.
The problem was that when I executed the script by hand, I connected to the server and cd'd into the /srv/project directory before calling php script.php PHPs include in this case looks in the current directory for the files I want to include. When ansible connects to the server it did not change the directory thus producing the no such file or directory error. The solution to this is simple as the shell module takes a chdir as an argument to change the directory to the one specified before running the command.
My ansible task now looks as follows:
- name: run script
shell: 'php /srv/project/script.php'
args:
chdir: '/srv/project'
Thanks everyone for your help!
Ansible runs under a non-interactive ssh session, and thus does not apply user environment settings (eg, .bashrc, .bash_profile). This is typically the cause of different behavior when running interactively vs. not. Check the difference between an interactive printenv and raw: printenv via Ansible, and you'll probably find what needs to be set (via an ansible task/play environment: block) to get things working.

php exec() rsync ssh to remote server not working

I am trying to rsync file from local to remote server.
When i do this on console it works:
rsync -avzhe ssh /var/www/folder1/file5
root#192.168.56.74:/var/www/folder2
but when i do this on my php and run the php script, it doesn't work:
$rysncCommand = "rsync -avzhe ssh /var/www/folder1/file5 root#192.168.56.74:/var/www/folder2";
shell_exec($rysncCommand);
There is no error shown, so i can't really tell what is the error. Is there something wrong with my php script?
First, you need to check if you need to be a root or (sudo user) for running rsync.
If yes then exec() command will only work if it is run by same user on php-cli (not on browser by Apache user). i.e. Which user you are loggined into shell for run rsync.
If it is root or any elavated permission user with sudo permission then, This rsync command may not be available to apache/www-data user which is working when php script run from browser.
So You try to make a normal user and login through it, Then try rsync if you are successful then it may be interesting to see what are other problems can be, But if you getting access/permission denied then obviously you can not run this script at-least on browser.
Besides this One more thing permission may not be directly related to rsync command itself but with folder /etc/test/ which is owned by root user in normal scenario.
For more details you can check this Stack Overflow Link .

Git pull “permission denied” when using shell_exec in PHP

I'm trying to make a hook on bitbucket, that executes a php file, and this file executes the pull command:
shell_exec('/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/git pull');
The pull command works fine on the SSH console, but the PHP returns the error:
Permission denied (publickey). fatal: Could not read from remote
repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository
exists.
The command --version shows the path to git is right, whoiami returns the same user on both, so I don't know if it is a permission issue.
What can be going wrong?
Edit: An additional issue: the alias I added for git don't work on PHP, only the full path as above. Via terminal it works just fine. Maybe it's the same reason why the key don't work in php.
Edit 2: $PATH is different on both.
When you run this command within a PHP script you are not running the command as yourself:
shell_exec('/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/git pull');
The reason it works from the terminal console is you run the command as yourself from the console. But on a web server, you are not the user running the command. Remember: When you run PHP on a web server, it is a an Apache module. Meaning the web server user—which could be www-data, root or even apache on some systems—is running the PHP script which then runs the shell_exec command.
So it would never work as you have it setup. Perhaps you can kludge something together that would allow a key-pair to be used by the web server for these purposes, but that seems like a security risk waiting to happen.

File with hudson user permissions not accessible from hudson build

We have a hudson + php + phing setup running on Ubuntu 12.04
We have a set of credentials files which we want to secure. The files are in /usr/lib/vocanic-credentials/. All files here are either accessible by www-data or hudson (we have configured group access credentials).
With this setup, when I log in as hudson and run the phing command from bash, everything works fine. When running the same through the hudson build process (by going to 'Build Now' on web interface), it fails by saying Permission Denied.
[01;35m[PHP Error] include(.../hudson_dev_vocanic_mantle_build.php):
failed to open stream: Permission denied [line 3 of /.../utils_config.inc.php][m
[01;35m[PHP Error] include(): Failed opening
'/usr/lib/vocanic-credentials/hudson_dev_vocanic_mantle_build.php'
for inclusion (include_path='...') [line 3 of /.../utils_config.inc.php][m
When we change the permissions to allow "all" access, running from hudson web interface also works. So, we figured that the actual execution of hudson must be as some other user (though there isn't public document to that effect), we printed whoami from within our code and it seems to indicate 'hudson'.
Even accessing the file (without access to all) as hudson seem to work, as does it from bash - sudo -u hudson cat /usr/lib/vocanic-credentials/hudson_dev_vocanic_mantle_build.php.
At the moment, we don't know how to resolve this issue. Any help will be appreciated.
Sounds like it could be a permission issue with the Hudson user - after you added the hudson user to the group, did you restart the server? Try doing that, I imagine this should solve your issue.

How can I launch a local Application on OSX from php running MAMP?

I'm running a bunch of local Kiosks on mac mini's and have been using dropbox to keep all the files in sync. However - the dropbox updates have been sketchy as of late because of the firewall settings where these things are. A workaround I have found is by having dropbox quit and restart periodically to force it to update.
My question is - since all of these are running php applications on MAMP - is there a way to launch a local app from php? I'm able to kill dropbox by doing something like this:
$killit = killall -KILL Dropbox;
But it doesn't work the same to restart it. I've tried doing this:
$start_dbox = open /Applications/Dropbox.app;
To no avail. Is there a better way to automate this process of shutting down and reopening a local application?
I've had similar problems trying to control software remotely. The 'open' command must be executed either as the currently logged in console user, or from a terminal owned by the console (e.g. Terminal.app).
If you change your PHP to redirect STDERR, you should see the error that 'open' is returning:
$start_dbox = "open /Applications/Dropbox.app 2>&1";
The following text should then be returned from the system call:
LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 for the file /Applications/Dropbox.app.
One workaround I've used in the past is to create a lock file somewhere in the filesystem, which your PHP script can write to and your console user can read. Then, you can create a cron that runs as the console user and periodically checks the lock file to see if it needs to restart Dropbox.
I was actually able to solve this by creating a shell script with the following:
#!/bin/sh
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=""
osascript -e 'tell application "Dropbox" to activate'
Saved it as start_db.sh and dropped it in my root apache directory (so there was no permissions problem for that user).
Then in my php file I was able to do:
$start_dbox = exec('/full/path/to/start_db.sh');
Worked like a charm. Dropbox now quits and restarts with no issues.

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