Running shell commands thru PHP
 

Hello everyone - I'm sure this has got to be possible, but everything i've tried fails to do what I'd like. I would like to have an admin console on my webserver (publicly-acessible) where I can login (with basic or MD5 authentication), and have a page with three options:

Reboot Server
Halt Server
Restart HoTTProxy

So I'd pretty much like to be able to run the commands, from the internet: 'reboot' 'halt' and '/etc/init.d/HoTTProxy restart'

How exactly do you go about doing this in php, and how can I verify that they are working (ie from the web page?)

thanks!
Jonathon Reinhart

Have you looked at the system() function in PhP?
It's described on php.net.