Automatic cpanel login

bgeddy · 08-09-2008, 03:42 PM

I am involved with a number of websites which are on free hosts. A lot of these free hosts expect a regular login to their cpanel or forum to keep the sites open.

At the moment I regularly log in to keep the sites available but sometimes miss the required login frequency and have to get the providers to reinstate the site.

This is a pain. I have thought about writing an autologin procedure (perhaps a bash script involving curl,wget or something or perhaps python) based on a cron job to automate this procedure.

Has anyone seen such a utility anywhere or any relevant information ? I cannot figure out how to get the right url for the logins.

Any information would be useful.

krizzz · 08-15-2008, 12:59 PM

If the login page is stuffed with some JavaScript that requires some processing on the client side in order to log in getting the proper URLs and Cookies may be severe pain in the ass. Personally I have never heard of a tool that could scrap the page and analyze the login process automatically. If you are really crazy (lazy) you could use one of the desktop automation tools to record macros and just play them when needed. I have a positive experience with the tool called "Desktop Macros" from xStarter Solutions. From what I remember it was free.

bgeddy · 08-17-2008, 09:05 AM

Thanks for the reply.

Quote:

If the login page is stuffed with some JavaScript that requires some processing on the client side in order to log in getting the proper URLs and Cookies may be severe pain in the ass.

Yes - this is turning into a right PITA.

jinxy · 09-18-2008, 07:33 PM

I know that this is an old thread but I came upon it doing a Google search looking for the same exact script and I found what your looking for. This works great and I've tested it:

http://curl.haxx.se/mail/curlphp-2005-08/0001.html

PHP Code:


			
<?php 

# set up variables

$url = "http://yourcpanellogin:2082/frontend/x3/index.html";

$login = "cpanel";

$user_name = "your user name";

$user_pass = "your pass";

$agent = "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1";



$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 0);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_UNRESTRICTED_AUTH, 1);

curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $agent); 

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $user_name.":".$user_pass);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "my_cookies.txt");

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "my_cookies.txt");

curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);

?>

Cheers

bgeddy · 09-19-2008, 01:01 PM

Wow - thanks a lot for the reply - I'll be trying it out later !!

Thanks again..