Running a script from a web page

[randy at randyrathbun.org]

Very easy to do...

Make your script and drop it in whatever directory, then just call it
through a browser, such as http://mysite.org/myscript would call the
script myscript located in the root directory of the web server. You will
need execute permission on the file, and make sure it is read only too.

One thing I might add is that if you are wanting to call a PHP script to
do this, you need to go in to the PHP conf file and find the PHP safe
variable (or something like that) and turn it off. But just calling a
nermal script or program in this fashion is no big deal.

On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

> Is there a simple way to create a link/button on a web page and have it
> execute a shell script on the server?  I'm looking for something that will
> allow me to remove a flag file.

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