I'm in the process of making a game control panel for my game-server, and part of that is making a PHP script that can kill process ID's. (Yup... I am aware of the risks.)

I'm using this code as a basis:


where the result (as it should be) is this:


There seems to be a wee problem. If I use the gtaserver in PuTTY, it would kill the game-server, but if I try in PHP, it won't kill it. Nice.

I had a check with exec('whoami') and the user/group for apache is nobody.

So how would I go about getting this to work/giving apache the permission to use this?

You could create a different user to run Apache under, then give that user necessary permissions. I think I added my Apache user to the list of sudoers (no password required) so that it cold access certain log files - You could try something similar.