Hi
Apache in debian runs as user www-data. Has the user www-data the rights to run
1. your program
2. access gpio

You may test this if you su www-data, having no password:
su # become root
su www-data # become user www-data
bash # as www-data has no shell
/var/www/ledCtl $led $onOff

HTH


On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 8:02 PM, Marcelo Rodrigues <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I wrote a small C program for turning on/off the LEDs of the BeagleBone, it
> works fine when I call it direct from command line. However, when I try to
> call it from a PHP code it doesn't work.
>
> I'm using Linux beaglebone 3.8.13-bone71.1 and Apache2. The C program reads
> 2 arguments from command line (led and onOff) that says which led to control
> and its state. The exec line in the PHP code is the following:
> exec("/var/www/ledCtl $led $onOff");
>
> Do you have any idea how can I find the reason this call doen'st work from
> PHP code?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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