Question

I have some code in my postwwwacct script which doesn’t work, it doesn’t import the sql file

shell_exec("cd /home/".$opts['user']."/public_html/sbans/sql/");
$command="mysql -u ".$opts['user']." -p".$opts['pass']." ".$opts['user']."_bans < data.sql";
shell_exec($command);

However after account creation i can manually run in ssh

cd /home/jason/public_html/sbans/sql/
mysql -u jason -pmypass jason_bans < data.sql

Which then works.

What is the problem with the php code in postwwwacct?

Sorry for re-editing your edit but the file does not have php extension
i manually call the php compiler by using

#!/usr/local/bin/php -q

Answer 1

the problem is that shell_exec does cd and finishes so the command which would do the import with the sql is not found and failed.

try something like this :

<?php
$command="mysql -u ".$opts['user']." -p".$opts['pass']." ".$opts['user']."_bans < data.sql";
$output = shell_exec("cd /home/".$opts['user']."/public_html/sbans/sql/ && ".$command);

and if you want to see the result of your command just do

echo $output