Running Powershell Script from PHP

Question

_{Sunday, January 10, 2010 12:09 AM}

Hi, 

I am trying to run a Powershell script from PHP using Apache on Windows Server 2008. I am using the following code to launch the powershell script: 

shell_exec('powershell.exe -command C:\PSscripts\helloworld.ps1')

Unfortunately I cannot get the script to run at all. I keep getting the error message in the apache log file:

File C:\PSscripts\helloworld.ps1 cannot be loaded because the execution of scripts is disabled on this system. 

I have used the "Set-ExecutionPolicy" command to set the policy to Unrestricted and the Apache service is running as Administrator but I can't for the life of me get it to run the Powershell script. 

Running the script directly from Powershell works fine.

Any help would be fantastic! 

Thanks.

All replies (4)

_{Sunday, January 10, 2010 1:21 AM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

Make sure to go into both the 32-bit and 64-bit instances and set the execution policy then retry.  Perl is likely using the 32-bit instance of PowerShell.

_{Sunday, January 10, 2010 2:29 PM}

Make sure to go into both the 32-bit and 64-bit instances and set the execution policy then retry.  Perl is likely using the 32-bit instance of PowerShell.

Worked like a charm! Turns out that PHP was running the 64bit version but it did not have the correct execution policy. 

Big Thanks! 

_{Tuesday, December 11, 2012 11:32 AM}

works fine for me also, seems like executing Powershell on the command line or from PHP executes two different Powershell, each with it's own set of permissions :-(

_{Tuesday, July 30, 2013 9:22 AM}

Hello,

I have the exact same issue on w2k8 R2 with IIS 7.5.

I tried these codes from php to execute my command:

$cmd = 'C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -NoProfile -Noninteractive -command ". e:\myscript.ps1 1;"';
    //$cmd = 'dir';
    if ( $a=exec($cmd) ) {
        echo "ok";
    }

I tried with shell_execute, but it doesn't work. Each time the script goes uuntil having an execute timeout 500 internal error.

How do you go into 64 bit powershell instance to set the policy ?