php exec http shell script

[bishop2001]

Greetings,

I'm trying to execute a shell script which is residing on a webserver on a remote machine with no luck. I have tried the following. It looks

like it runs but I never see the output from the script on machine2. Any suggestions

 

from machine 1:

echo exec('http://machine2/script.sh);

 

and

 

from machine1:
<?php
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://machine2/script.sh");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
?>

[QuickOldCar]

Tried this my server to another, and my result showed the contents of the sh file

Edited March 6, 2014 by QuickOldCar

[kicken]

Do you want the script to run on machine1 or machine2?

 

If you want it to run on machine1, you need to download it first to a local file then run that file with exec().

 

If you want it to run on machine2 you'd have to configure the server to run it when requested.

[bishop2001]

so I want the script to reside on machine2 but to be executed from machine1. Sort of like running a remote rsh command.

[bishop2001]

regarding: Tried this on my server to another, and my result showed the contents of the sh file

 

I get the same thing, it will show me the contents of the remote shell script but not actually execute it.

[trq]

Of course it does. What exactly do you expect to happen?

[bishop2001]

I would like the remote shell script to execute rather than show me the contents

[trq]

That is not going to happen via a http request.

 

Do you have ssh access to the remote server? Just execute it via that.

 

Otherwise, if you really want to make the request via http, you'll need to write a php script that you can request which will in turn execute your script.