Issue
I am new to web design, and I'm trying to setup an Apache web interface to some python code.
I am running a test python script that just opens a new file in /var/www/html/ called output.txt and attempts to write to it. When the web page is loaded, I use shell_exec('/usr/bin/python3 /var/www/html/ptest.py'); to run my python script. The python script does run and outputs some print messages, but trying to open output.txt fails with:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/www/html/ptest.py", line 8, in f=open("/var/www/html/output.txt", "w") PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/www/html/output.txt'. It will also fail if the file already exists and I open to read.
I have confirmed that the script is being run by apache with getpass.getuser(), and I have tried as many different permission combinations as I can think of for /var/www/html/, including 777. I have set apache as the group for every directory from /var/ to html/. I have tried creating the file ahead of time with 777 permissions. I have checked that /var/ to html/ has group execution permission.
I have tried creating and using another folder completely owned by apache.
I have looked through the apache directives to see if there is a directive I need to have, but I haven't found one yet.
I've included the code for my python script and my php page below.
EDIT: I've tried running ptest.py as apache using su -s /bin/bash apache.
ptest.py successfully runs this way, so the problem doesn't seem to be a permission associated with the apache user/group.
ptest.py
#!/usr/bin/python3
import sys
import getpass
import os
sys.stderr = sys.stdout
print(getpass.getuser())
print(os.getgid())
f = open("/var/www/html/output.txt", "w")
f.write("banana")
f.close()
print("I wrote banana, which is a berry")
banana.php
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<h2>Welcome to the Program Test</h2>
<?php
echo "Created Command", "<br>";
$output = shell_exec('/usr/bin/python3 /var/www/html/ptest.py');
echo "Executed Command", "<br>";
echo $output, "<br>";
echo "End of output", "<br>";
$output = shell_exec('ls /var/www/html/');
echo $output;
?>
</body>
</html>
Solution
Credit to domino_pl leaving a comment.
It looks like typical selinux problem. Try selinux setenforce 0 – domino_pl
Answered By - Bill Jobs
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