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Nextcloud version (eg, 20.0.5): 24.0.5
Operating system and version (eg, Ubuntu 20.04): LiteSpeed V8.0.1 Cloudlinux 1.3
Apache or nginx version (eg, Apache 2.4.25): 2.4.54
PHP version (eg, 7.4): 7.4 > 8.x
The issue you are facing: shell_exec related errors when accessing Administration > System
Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Y/N): Y
Short version: on our shared webhosting the PHP function shell_exec is not enabled and we have no way to enable it for our account. We’re told it is dangerous. My impression is that this function is only used for Administration > System. Is this true? We could live without that.
Many topics on this forum point to Github. A search there reveals that there has been discussion among developers about shell_exec and in the past there have been pull-requests to remove it. But my knowledge of PHP and the Github workflow is insufficient to understand what is going on.
Steps to replicate it:
- Update Nextcloud from 24.0.4 to 24.0.5
- Access Administration > System (/index.php/settings/admin/serverinfo). No errors there, but the Nework section is incomplete: only the host name is shown.
- Check Admin > Logging. This gets flooded with errors like:
Error: shell_exec() has been disabled for security reasons at /home/<user>/domains/(our domain>/public_html/cloud/apps/serverinfo/lib/OperatingSystems/DefaultOs.php#116
every time I access Access Administration > System.
- In DirectAdmin set PHP version from 7.4 to 8.0
Now Administration > System produces an error page:
The server was unable to process your request (...)
External address: 2a10:3781:15:1:a9f8:900a:ba7:dda9
Request ID: YxxowmdQRzubW62uI-J4cwAAHxc
and Admin > Logging gets the same errors as above.
- In DirectAdmin set PHP version from 8.0 to 8.1
Administration > System results in the same error page as with PHP 8.0
but the output in **Admin > Logging** is different now:
Call to undefined function OCA\ServerInfo\OperatingSystems\shell_exec() in file '/home/<account./domains/<our domain>/public_html/cloud/apps/serverinfo/lib/OperatingSystems/DefaultOs.php' line 227
/home/<account./domains/<our domain>/public_html/cloud/lib/private/AppFramework/App.php - line 172:
OC\AppFramework\Http\Dispatcher->dispatch()
/home/<account./domains/<our domain>/public_html/cloud/lib/private/Route/Router.php - line 298:
OC\AppFramework\App::main()
/home/<account./domains/<our domain>/public_html/cloud/lib/base.php - line 1030:
OC\Route\Router->match()
/home/<account./domains/<our domain>/public_html/cloud/index.php - line 36:
OC::handleRequest()
Veroorzaakt door Error: Call to undefined function OCA\ServerInfo\OperatingSystems\shell_exec()
Some more info:
The output of our config.php file in `/path/to/nextcloud` (make sure you remove any identifiable information!):
<?php
$CONFIG = array (
'instanceid' => '**removed**',
'passwordsalt' => '**removed**',
'secret' => '**removed**',
'trusted_domains' =>
array (
0 => 'cloud.<our domain>',
),
'datadirectory' => '/home/<account>/domains/<our domain>/public_html/cloud/data',
'dbtype' => 'mysql',
'version' => '24.0.5.1',
'overwrite.cli.url' => 'https://cloud.<our domain>',
'dbname' => '<account>_nc',
'dbhost' => 'localhost',
'dbport' => '',
'dbtableprefix' => 'oc_',
'mysql.utf8mb4' => true,
'dbuser' => '<account>_nc',
'dbpassword' => 'FcrFxEXYX',
'installed' => true,
'mail_smtpmode' => 'smtp',
'mail_smtpsecure' => 'tls',
'mail_sendmailmode' => 'smtp',
'mail_smtphost' => 'mail.<our domain>',
'mail_smtpport' => '587',
'mail_from_address' => 'noreply',
'mail_domain' => '<our domain>',
'mail_smtpauthtype' => 'LOGIN',
'mail_smtpauth' => 1,
'mail_smtpname' => 'noreply@<our domain>',
'mail_smtppassword' => '**removed**',
'maintenance' => false,
'theme' => '',
'loglevel' => 2,
'default_language' => 'nl',
'default_locale' => 'nl_NL',
'defaultapp' => 'files',
'skeletondirectory' => '/home/<account>/domains/<our domain>/public_html/clouddata/skeleton',
'templatedirectory' => '',
'updater.secret' => '**removed**',
);
We have no access to Apache/nginx/system log in /var/log/____