PHP script to run python3 .py file

Question

I'm trying to run a python file from a PHP script. The intended thing to happen is that when one browses to the */webhookMac.php on my site, the script name MacLabLogin.py will run. For some reason though, nothing happens. I checked the logs on my Apache2 server but I see no related logs (all the logs are from months ago).

Here is my PHP code

<?php
$command = escapeshellcmd("python3 /location/of/file/from/root/MacLabLogin.py");
$output = shell_exec($command);
echo $output;
?>

PHP works on my webserver and I know that PHP file is accessible and runs but for some reason, the part of running the .py file doesn't run the file. The python script also works when I run it manually.

PS: The "echos" don't return anything. The webpage is blank. I am on an Amazon Linux EC2 Instance.

Answer 1

Turned out the issue was that the selenium module could not be found. I added the selenium module files in the same file of the script and it was able to run smoothly.

pip3 install selenium -t /path/to/root/of/.py/script/