On 1/27/13, Ashley Sheridan <a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 03:45 -0600, tamouse mailing lists wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 3:10 AM, jupiter <jupiter....@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I have a client.php which calls an external python socket client
>> > program exec("Client.py"), the Client.py calls
>> > sockobj.connect(("localhost", 60000)) to connect socket.
>> >
>> > If I run the client.php from Linux command line $ ./client.php, it
>> > works find, no problem at all.
>> >
>> > But when I run it from web page http://localhost/client.php, it could
>> > not connect to socket at following exception in python
>> > sockobj.connect(("localhost", 60000)):
>> >
>> > "sockobj.connect Errno 13 Permission denied"
>> >
>> > Why it can run from command line, but cannot make socket connection
>> > from web? Does it need some kind of configuration in php or apache?
>> > Appreciate any tips and clues.
>> >
>> > Thank you.
>> >
>> > Kind regards.
>> > I am puzzled by
>>
>> First question: why use a separate program and language to call a
>> socket? PHP has two ways of doing it, using the Socket extension and
>> using the Stream extension. The Stream extension is a little nicer as
>> you just use standard PHP file functions on it.
>>
>> To look here, though, you might want to look at the permissions on
>> client.py to make sure it as well as the requisite paths to get to the
>> script are readable and executable by the user running your webserver,
>> or alternatively, your php scripts if running something like fcgi.
>>
>
>
> I'll take a bet that the Apache server is running as a different user
> from your login, and doesn't have permissions to open sockets. You could
> either give the Apache user permissions, or put the exec call as part of
> an argument of sudo.
Well, it is apache for both user id and group id if you are running
from web server. The problem is not which user account, I can run it
without any problems from command line in any user accounts, the
problem is it got permission denied when you run from web server.
> Thanks,
> Ash
> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>
>
>
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