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JacobTheDev
JacobTheDev

Reputation: 18560

How can I trigger a gulp task with shell_exec()?

I'm trying to set up a system that automatically pulls and compiles on a remote server when I push to a repository on GitHub. I've found a number of very useful things in getting this working, but I'm stuck with the last step: executing my task, gulp --dist.

I'm using this excellent PHP script to trigger the pull, which works great. I've forked that repository in order to try to add an additional option, AFTER_PULL, which executes a shell command after pulling finishes. Here's my modification (also below). In config.php, I'm setting the following:

define('AFTER_PULL', 'node ./node_modules/gulp/bin/gulp.js --dist');

That doesn't seem to ever fire, and no error seems to be triggered either.

I'm thinking it's probably a permissions thing, but the user (www-data) has permission to work in all the directories necessary. I found this article detailing how to allow www-data to run without needing a password, but after completing these steps, it's still not working.

I'm sure I must be doing something obviously wrong and I'm just unable to see it. The command works if I run it in a terminal with sudo -Hu www-data.

...

if (!empty(AFTER_PULL)) {
    try{
        shell_exec(AFTER_PULL);
    }catch (Exception $e) {
        fputs($file, $e . "\n");
    }
}

...

Upvotes: 1

Views: 860

Answers (1)

Peter
Peter

Reputation: 741

Use the full path to node binary:

define('AFTER_PULL', ' /usr/bin/node ./node_modules/gulp/bin/gulp.js --dist');

Upvotes: 2

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