Wrapping PHP in itself

This is a mental note to myself. Somethings using pre-installed VPS the PHP executed by Apache is lacking the necessary permissions to run binary files (shellscript and built-in commands works fine though). It doesn't generate errors, it simply doesn't work.

Those VPS often has the PHP-CGI version installed and thus you can:

1. Make your PHP script execute a shell script
2. Init the shell script with PHP-CGI
3. Execute

This is how the shell script in step 2 looks like:
#!/usr/bin/php
<?
exec('/home/user/www/mybinaryfiletoexecute');
?>

Note that the binary file must be in your www-dir.