Hi,
I have a simple Perl script (see below) that grabs the hosts from my vCenter and prints it out to the terminal.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use VMware::VIRuntime;
Opts::parse();
Opts::validate();
Util::connect();
my $host_views = Vim::find_entity_views( view_type => 'HostSystem');
foreach my $host_view (@$host_views) {
print $host_view."=>";
print $host_view->name."\n";
}
Util::disconnect();
When I use PHP's shell_exec(), exec(), passthru(), or popen() to grab the output of the script, I keep getting this error from Apache:
PHP line:
$hosts = shell_exec("/var/www/cgi-bin/gethosts.pl --server <MyvCenterIP> --username <MyUsername> --password '<MyPassword>'");
Error after running PHP:
Error connecting to server at 'https://<MyvCenterIP>/sdk/webService': Perhaps host is not a vCenter or ESX server
But when I run the script in a terminal, it works fine.
# /var/www/cgi-bin/gethosts.pl --server <MyvCenterIP> --username <MyUsername> --password <MyPassword>
HostSystem=HASH(0x3340110)=> <Host1IP>
HostSystem=HASH(0x643b088)=> <Host2IP>
HostSystem=HASH(0x6707778)=> <Host3IP>
I also tried writing a Hello world script just to see if mod_perl is working fine with PHP and it was ok.
Just for more info, I am on CentOS 6. This script worked somewhat in Ubuntu with PHP but had other issues.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
