Running a python script within a bash file within a Yii project - bash

Question

I have a Yii project that allows importing files.
Within this project I call the following command to try and convert xls files to csv:
$file = fopen($model->importfile->tempname,'r');
$filetype = substr($model->importfile, strrpos($model->importfile, '.')+1);
if ($filetype === 'xls')
{
$tempxls = $model->importfile->tempname;
$outputArr = array();
exec(Yii::app()->basePath."/commands/xlstocsv.sh " . $tempxls, $outputArr);
PropertiesController::xlsToConsoleV7Format($tempxls, $log);
}
xlstocsv.sh:
#!/bin/bash
# Try to autodetect OOFFICE and OOOPYTHON.
OOFFICE=`ls /usr/bin/libreoffice /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice /usr/bin/X11/libreoffice | head -n 1`
OOOPYTHON=`ls /usr/bin/python3 | head -n 1`
XLS='.xls'
CSV='.csv'
INPUT=$1$XLS
OUTPUT=$1$CSV
cp $1 $INPUT
if [ ! -x "$OOFFICE" ]
then
echo "Could not auto-detect OpenOffice.org binary"
exit
fi
if [ ! -x "$OOOPYTHON" ]
then
echo "Could not auto-detect OpenOffice.org Python"
exit
fi
echo "Detected OpenOffice.org binary: $OOFFICE"
echo "Detected OpenOffice.org python: $OOOPYTHON"
# Start OpenOffice.org in listening mode on TCP port 2002.
$OOFFICE "-accept=socket,host=localhost,port=2002;urp;StarOffice.ServiceManager" -norestore -nofirststartwizard -nologo -headless &
# Wait a few seconds to be sure it has started.
sleep 5s
# Convert as many documents as you want serially (but not concurrently).
# Substitute whichever documents you wish.
$OOOPYTHON /fullpath/DocumentConverter.py $INPUT $OUTPUT
# Close OpenOffice.org.
cp $OUTPUT $1
DocumentConverter.py:
This can be found here: https://github.com/mirkonasato/pyodconverter. It has been slightly modified to have correct syntax for python3.
Ok, the issue is, when running the php code from the terminal, it correctly creates the csv file from the excel file.
However, when running it from within the browser, it still runs the script and creates the output file, but it has not correctly converted it into csv.
It all works perfectly for every file I have thrown at it so far when running from console, but for some reason when running it from within a browser, it fails to convert the file properly.
Any ideas for what could be going wrong?

Answer 1

Thanks alejandro, permission errors seemed to be the issue. Also I needed to move the .config/librroffice folder into apaches home directory.