Question

I have a problem when I want to launch VLC from Apache using PHP. I’m using Ubuntu 10.10 (It works with Archlinux).

Apache/2.2.16 (Ubuntu) Server
PHP 5.3.3-1ubuntu9.3 with Suhosin-Patch

I launched Apache with my own user.

Code:

<?php
$foo = system('/usr/bin/cvlc');
echo $foo;
?>

$foo is empty.
when I launch VLC from command line it works.
Simple touch foo works.

Can you help me? Thanks.

Answer 1

Use PHP 5.2.9 or less.

Problem happened to me in xampp 1.7.4 I replaced it by xampp 1.7.1 cvlc and it worked.

Hope this info useful, if it works for you I want to know the reason for that.