Question

I have a php script which needs to restart lighttpd. The php page never returns to the client. I believe that is because the call doesn’t return. Here is my code:

 <?php

 exec("/etc/init.d/lighttpd restart");
 echo "Restarted!";

 ?>

If I comment out the exec line it returns as expected.
How can I get this call to return?

Thanks,

EV

Answer 1

If you restart you httpd process your scripts will be terminated, no matter what you do!

You will never make any scripts to return a value directly from PHP. To make that work you should add a javascript and check for a 200 Status Code.