“exec() has been disabled for security reasons” & “Undefined variable”

Question

I found a cool MySQL backup script. It\'s working fine on some hosting companies. Now I\'m trying it on a different host running PHP Version 5.2.8.

I have a php.ini fi

Answer 1

Another possibility is that exec has been disable by PHP safe mode. From the referenced page, it looks like you could avoid this by putting the script you are exec-ing into the PHP "safe mode exec dir".