How to execute a shell script in PHP?

Question

I have a script in /var/www/myscript.sh which creates folders and runs the command svn update for my projects. I need to execute this script by calling

Answer 1

Several possibilities:

• You have safe mode enabled. That way, only exec() is working, and then only on executables in safe_mode_exec_dir
• exec and shell_exec are disabled in php.ini
• The path to the executable is wrong. If the script is in the same directory as the php file, try exec(dirname(__FILE__) . '/myscript.sh');