Help Me Humpa

stinkingshoe · Joined: 15 May 2006 Posts: 45

Is it possible for a PHP script to search the server it is run on for a particular file?

I have no idea how I configured it before... but once upon a time, I had Mplayer working with my gallery2.1 installation...

I reinstalled it because I could not longer upload zip files and have the server extract the images from it (found after I reinstalled everything that the server changed folder permissions... whole thing could have been fixed chmoding them back Mad

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and now I can't find a valid path... I'm pretty sure it was mplayer, but it could have been ffmpeg also... When I contacted Godaddy, they said they don't install binaries because of a users request.... but I'm pretty sure it's on their server already, because I had videos working properly a week ago...

Humpa · Site Admin Joined: 06 Nov 2005 Posts: 10258

I assume they don't give you ssh access?
You can try doing it from a php script, but they probably have that disabled too
You can put ssh commands in the php exec or system or shell-exec function:
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.shell-exec.php

I suck at shell commands, so I don't even know the basics - like the code for a doing a search/find - you'll have to google it if you don't know.

stinkingshoe · Joined: 15 May 2006 Posts: 45

well, shell-exec works... I can run commands such as uname -a etc... however, when I try to initiate a find (find /usr -name ffmpeg) it gives me the following error: find: /usr/share/ssl/CA: Permission denied

so I'm assuming they have the find feature blocked. Which I guess makes sense...

I appreicate your help though Smile