postwwwacct calling command line php

[malk]

I haven't touched much perl since I picked up php in ~98, so I wanted to write postwwwacct in php. It worked fine from the shell.

#!/usr/bin/php -q
<?php

print "\n Running postwwwacct \n";
$message = "the arguments are\n\n\n";
foreach($argv as $key => $value)
{
        $message .= "$key : $value \n";
}

mail('me@example.com, 'postwwwacct', $message);

?>

(note: this isn't the finial script, but the test one I have reduced it to)

but then when I created an account I get this in WHM:

wwwacct creation finished
Status: 404
Content-type: text/html
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.10

No input file specified.

Ok, I thought, maybe it doesn't like how perl is passing its variables. so I wrote a perl postwwwaccct that looked like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "Starting PostWWWAcct \n\n";

$stg = "";

foreach $varl (@ARGV)
{
        $stg = $stg . $varl . " ";
}

print "$stg\n";

$phpcommand = "php.postwwwacct $stg";
print "$phpcommand\n";
system($phpcommand);

it too, worked fine form the command line. passing the arguments like expected. But I still got the 404 error in WHM.

so tried variations on the $phpcommand:

$phpcommand = "./php.postwwwacct $stg";
$phpcommand = "/scripts/php.postwwwacct $stg";
$phpcommand = "/usr/bin/php -q /scripts/php.postwwwacct $stg";

each one working fine from the command line, but failing in WHM. I also played with permissions starting at 700, then 770, then (the dreaded) 777. All failed in the exact same way.

Obviously, I am missing some magic token or juju dance I need to do. I guess I could have the perl postwwwacct call a web page, but I would prefer to not have it be publicly accessible and there are some classes I already have written in php that I would like not to have to rewrite.

Any advice would be appreciated.

[PWSowner]

Are the scripts owned by root?

[malk]

yep.

-rwx------    1 root     wheel         222 Jun 30 17:02 postwwwacct

edit: by the way thank you and this is on WHM 10.1.0 cPanel 10.2.0-C89 FreeBSD 5.3

[argintxe2]

Use CLI binary of PHP and the issue will be fixed. After many tryes with PHP4 and PHP5 CGI bynaries I tryed with a PHP5 CLI version and it worked!

[sllik]

Use CLI binary of PHP and the issue will be fixed. After many tryes with PHP4 and PHP5 CGI bynaries I tryed with a PHP5 CLI version and it worked!

What's CLI?

[intel352]

cli php is an apache module, cgi php is standalone, from what i gather