Restarting tor with php/exec

[AdamC]

I need to restart tor with php (after making changes to torrc periodically), from the command line I'd do

/etc/init.d/tor restart

and that works, but from php doing

exec('/etc/init.d/tor restart',$output);

results in a "Checking if tor configuration is valid ... failed!" error.

Anyone have a solution?

 

[Kiopa_Matt]

What user is the PHP script running under? Make sure it's root.

Maybe try specifying the location of the torrc file as well. So:

exec("/etc/init.d/tor -f /etc/tor/torrc restart", $output);

 

[AdamC]

What user is the PHP script running under? Make sure it's root.

lol that will teach me for debugging in a browser window

thanks

 

[Amoxicillin]

Why are you modifying torrc in the first place?

 

[Amoxicillin]

Tor can have a control port running on 9051. Use it to make on the fly changes.