How to get path of the php binary on server where it is located

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Ponting picture Ponting · Sep 6, 2013 · Viewed 38k times · Source

I am using the exec command as below in PHP :

exec("/usr/bin/php /path/to/Notification.php >> /path/to/log_file.log 2>&1 &");

In my local environment (MAMP), I know the PHP installation path, so I can replace /usr/bin/php with /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.10/bin/php. But I don't know where the PHP installation (PHP binary) is located on the production server.

Answer

alexg picture alexg · Sep 6, 2013

It's usually /usr/bin/php but you could try to capture and parse the output of the command 'whereis php' or 'which php''.

Or better yet, use the constant PHP_BINARY if it is available. Have a look here.

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