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Posted by The Universes, 12-16-2008, 11:31 PM
Web Interface to Restart a Service Is there an easy way to make a web interface for stopping, starting, and restarting services like httpd, mail, dns, etc? Edit: I know you could just install Webmin, but I'd prefer to have my own script just for this purpose. __________________The Universes - Server/VPS Management and PHP/MySQL Application Development
Posted by bager, 12-16-2008, 11:37 PM
with php use the exec and system functions to run shell commands.
Posted by The Universes, 12-16-2008, 11:46 PM
Short of running Apache or Lighttpd as root, that won't work. And I was understand it, its not possible to use sudo from exec(). __________________The Universes - Server/VPS Management and PHP/MySQL Application Development
Posted by cygnusd, 12-17-2008, 09:13 AM
I'd recommend supervisord (http://www.supervisord.org).
Posted by izwan00, 12-17-2008, 09:33 AM
exec function should work. But the server must give privilege to use them
Posted by juangake, 12-17-2008, 07:33 PM
You may find useful this PHP function:http://php.net/popen
Posted by The Universes, 12-17-2008, 09:39 PM
Thanks for all the suggestions, I've been able to find a way to make this work. __________________The Universes - Server/VPS Management and PHP/MySQL Application Development
Posted by r0kawa, 12-17-2008, 11:33 PM
Hi The Universes, Care to share your finding ? I usually use /etc/sudoers to allow apache to run a PHP file and that PHP will allow to run any root exec application. It's a little dangerous, but I don't find any easier way other than that. __________________ZenPipe Hosting : Malaysia VPS Hosting
Posted by The Universes, 12-18-2008, 12:48 AM
SSH through PHP:http://php.net/ssh It basically SSH'es into the machine, checks the status of the service:http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/3680/servicesnc6.gif And I can issue re/start, stop commands to it as well. __________________The Universes - Server/VPS Management and PHP/MySQL Application Development
Posted by r0kawa, 12-18-2008, 01:13 AM
Nice, didn't ever heard about this before. You need to install it by pecl though. pecl install ssh2 __________________ZenPipe Hosting : Malaysia VPS Hosting
Posted by The Universes, 12-18-2008, 01:34 AM
Nope, untar it, "phpize
Posted by r0kawa, 12-18-2008, 01:56 AM
pear install ssh2-beta Quote: Rather than using pear install ssh2 to automatically download and install PECL/ssh2, you may download the tarball from PECL. From the root of the unpacked tarball, run: phpize
Posted by The Universes, 12-18-2008, 02:28 AM
Thats exactly how I did it. DL tarbar, compile, and add to php.ini __________________The Universes - Server/VPS Management and PHP/MySQL Application Development

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