API : call to change owner?

[BartVenken]

Hi,

Is there a way to change the owner of a hosting account (via the api) as it is possible in WHM?

When I paste something like this into the browser's addressbar, it works :

mywhmdomain/scripts/dochangeowner?user=username&owner=ownername

I would like to 'run' this url without actually opening the page. fopen and curl won't do the trick though.

Anyone any ideas?


Thnx in advance
Bart Venken

[cPanelMatt]

Bart, I find the that following script does the trick just fine:

$whmusername = "root";
$whmpassword = "somepassword";
$username = "someuser";
$owner = "root";

$query = "https://127.0.0.1:2087/scripts/dochangeowner?user=" . $username . "&owner=" . $owner;       #build query

$curl = curl_init();								# Create Curl Object
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER,0);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);		# Return contents of transfer on curl_exec
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST,0);		# Allow self-signed certs
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $whmusername.":".$whmpassword);  # set the username and password
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $query);
$result = curl_exec($curl);
if ($result == false) {
	error_log("curl_exec threw an error for $query");
}
print $result;

[BartVenken]

Thanks a lot! I'll give it a try.

I guess I need to replace 127.0.0.1 with the actual domain?

[cPanelMatt]

Bart, Yes, you will need to put in the actual domain, unless you are running it on the same server as WHM.

[BartVenken]

Hi again,

I just tried your code and it works like a charm.
Thnx a lot. Very much appreciated.

Bart Venken