Link: http://travis.kroh.net/archives/005051.php
I was installing Zend Platform on our development server today, and got an error for which I couldn't find very much information.
Our development server's configuration matches our production server's config as much as possible (as it should), and I've locked down our production server pretty hard, which includes a disable_functions directive of "dl, shell_exec, exec, system, passthru, popen" in php.ini in order to prevent PHP scripts from running external executables or making system calls.
Evidently this doesn't jive well with Zend Platform, but there's no documentation about why.
So, for the benefit of the intarwebs, the following functions are not to be included in the disable_functions directive if you wish to use Zend Platform:
- shell_exec
- exec
- popen
The other directives I was using are apparently okay (not that Zend bothers to mention it anywhere).
