Restart httpd through php code ?

[map007]

Hi,

I want to create a php program to restart httpd and mysql services....

<?php
$output=shell_exec('/etc/init.d/httpd restart');
echo $output;
exit;
?>

when i run this program i m getting below 3 errors :-

/etc/init.d/httpd: line 15: ulimit: open files: cannot modify limit: Operation not permitted
/etc/init.d/httpd: line 16: ulimit: open files: cannot modify limit: Operation not permitted
httpd: Could not open configuration file /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf: Permission denied
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(13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs
/etc/init.d/httpd: line 13: ulimit: open files: cannot modify limit: Operation not permitted
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Syntax error on line 884 of /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf:
SSLCertificateKeyFile: file '/etc/ssl/private/domain.com.key' does not exist or is empty
================================================

Can any one guide me how to solve this problem ?


Thank you.

[Reado]

What about:

<?php
$output=shell_exec('service httpd restart');
echo $output;
exit;
?>

?

[map007]

Hi,

Thanks for reply but now i m getting below error :-

Stopping httpd: [FAILED] Starting httpd: [FAILED]

tail -f logs/error_log

rm: cannot remove `/var/run/httpd/httpd.pid': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/var/lock/subsys/httpd': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/var/run/httpd/httpd.pid': Permission denied
(13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80
(13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs

Thanks.

[cPanelMatt]

For this to work need to execute the code as the root user. This is not possible without some heavy modifications to apache that will also break your server. Instead you will want to use the xmlapi's restartsrv call to do this. It should be noted that restarting apache from php will cause the page to halt loading, giving the appearance that apache crashed (as php generally runs as part of the apachw process, cgi may behave differently)

[cPanelMatt]

Sorry for the brevity of my last post - that was made from my phone. Anyways, if you want to do this via PHP you can use the XML API PHP class to do this:

http://forums.cpanel.net/f42/xml-api...-a-136449.html

f.ex:

include("xmlapi.php");

$ip = "127.0.0.1";
$root_pass = "somepass";

$xmlapi = new xmlapi($ip);
$xmlapi->password_auth("root",$root_pass);

$xmlapi->set_debug(1);

print $xmlapi->restartsrv('httpd');