OT: managing a webserver through php

[Jeff]

I have a lamp webserver that I'd like to simplify managing. This has
webmin, but webmin is so inscrutable that it is easier to manage this
through an SSH shell, which I'm hardly proficient at.

My needs are simple add a domain to apache.conf, create a mysql
database and user, setup a postgress (I think) email account and add an
FTP user and set some permissions and owners along the way.

So, what is the difference between system, exec, and shell_exec? And
surely there must be an easier light weight way to do this.

Jeff

[C. (http://symcbean.blogspot.com/)]

On Aug 11, 4:13 am, Jeff <jeff@spam_me_not.comwrote:

I have a lamp webserver that I'd like to simplify managing. This has
webmin, but webmin is so inscrutable that it is easier to manage this
through an SSH shell, which I'm hardly proficient at.

My needs are simple add a domain to apache.conf, create a mysql
database and user, setup a postgress (I think) email account and add an
FTP user and set some permissions and owners along the way.

So, what is the difference between system, exec, and shell_exec? And
surely there must be an easier light weight way to do this.

Jeff

If you don't know how to RTFM you're going to have lots of problems
implementing this: don't try and put this in a web page - but by all
means set up a script runable from an ssh session.

C.

[Jeff]

C. (http://symcbean.blogspot.com/) wrote:

On Aug 11, 4:13 am, Jeff <jeff@spam_me_not.comwrote:

> I have a lamp webserver that I'd like to simplify managing. This has
webmin, but webmin is so inscrutable that it is easier to manage this
through an SSH shell, which I'm hardly proficient at.

My needs are simple add a domain to apache.conf, create a mysql
database and user, setup a postgress (I think) email account and add an
FTP user and set some permissions and owners along the way.

So, what is the difference between system, exec, and shell_exec? And
surely there must be an easier light weight way to do this.

Jeff

If you don't know how to RTFM you're going to have lots of problems
implementing this: don't try and put this in a web page - but by all
means set up a script runable from an ssh session.

I was hoping there was a library of utilities that I hadn't found. As
far as system, exec and exec_shell it appears to me that for my purposes
that they are identical, but some have options to pipe results elsewhere
that I won't need.

I have some familiarity of handling some of these tasks in perl, but
my desire is to switch to php, even though I know much less.

Jeff

>
C.

[Motosauro]

Jeff ha scritto:

C. (http://symcbean.blogspot.com/) wrote:

>On Aug 11, 4:13 am, Jeff <jeff@spam_me_not.comwrote:

>> I have a lamp webserver that I'd like to simplify managing. This has
webmin, but webmin is so inscrutable that it is easier to manage this
through an SSH shell, which I'm hardly proficient at.

My needs are simple add a domain to apache.conf, create a mysql
database and user, setup a postgress (I think) email account and add an
FTP user and set some permissions and owners along the way.

So, what is the difference between system, exec, and shell_exec? And
surely there must be an easier light weight way to do this.

Jeff

If you don't know how to RTFM you're going to have lots of problems
implementing this: don't try and put this in a web page - but by all
means set up a script runable from an ssh session.

I was hoping there was a library of utilities that I hadn't found. As
far as system, exec and exec_shell it appears to me that for my purposes
that they are identical, but some have options to pipe results elsewhere
that I won't need.

I have some familiarity of handling some of these tasks in perl, but my
desire is to switch to php, even though I know much less.

Jeff

>>
C.

I concurr with symcbean: if you have the time and skill to write such a
script in php then write it in bash and use it via ssh. It's much safer.

Consider also that if you use fucntions such as shell_exec then you
should anyway issue the commands, so it's very much more efficient to
put them in a bash script.
You can find tons of tutorial regarding bash scripting. It's easy and
can be fun :)

A different solution could be to install Plesk

[Jeff]

Motosauro wrote:

Jeff ha scritto:

>C. (http://symcbean.blogspot.com/) wrote:

>>On Aug 11, 4:13 am, Jeff <jeff@spam_me_not.comwrote:
I have a lamp webserver that I'd like to simplify managing. This has
webmin, but webmin is so inscrutable that it is easier to manage this
through an SSH shell, which I'm hardly proficient at.

My needs are simple add a domain to apache.conf, create a mysql
database and user, setup a postgress (I think) email account and add an
FTP user and set some permissions and owners along the way.

So, what is the difference between system, exec, and shell_exec?
And
surely there must be an easier light weight way to do this.

Jeff

If you don't know how to RTFM you're going to have lots of problems
implementing this: don't try and put this in a web page - but by all
means set up a script runable from an ssh session.

I was hoping there was a library of utilities that I hadn't found. As
far as system, exec and exec_shell it appears to me that for my
purposes that they are identical, but some have options to pipe
results elsewhere that I won't need.

I have some familiarity of handling some of these tasks in perl, but
my desire is to switch to php, even though I know much less.

Jeff

>>>
C.

I concurr with symcbean: if you have the time and skill to write such a
script in php then write it in bash and use it via ssh. It's much safer.

Consider also that if you use fucntions such as shell_exec then you
should anyway issue the commands, so it's very much more efficient to
put them in a bash script.
You can find tons of tutorial regarding bash scripting. It's easy and
can be fun :)

A different solution could be to install Plesk

Plesk is too controlling. And it uses a mail client that is nearly
impossible to parse the mail logs if you need to.

I'll try the bash scripting route.

Jeff