Comments on: Executing Linux / UNIX commands from web page

By: Aravind

Aravind — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:26:02 +0000

Whats a CGI ? i am new to this.. Please reply

By: savy

savy — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:28:12 +0000

I Need to download Executing Linux / UNIX commands from web page

By: Venky$

Venky$ — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:24:10 +0000

hi..
wat r the websites to run unix commands

By: Sai

Sai — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:25:33 +0000

I am trying to execute perl script which accepts a parameter,through Perl CGI as
system(“./remConnect.pl $var”);
print “$? ”;

$? returns 512. Can you please give a solution to make it run?

Thanks

By: goodslave

goodslave — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:05:38 +0000

I am writing an html page to to display the output of a shell script .
but i need to pass usename & password from html page to shell script

please help me to resolve this problem

By: daniel

daniel — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 08:18:45 +0000

Hi this site is just great.. Thumbs up nixcraft

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:47:51 +0000

Is there a way to execute a Linux command in index.html? Say for instance $HOSTNAME?

By: akshaya

akshaya — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 03:31:38 +0000

hello sir.,
I am doing my project in linux.I want to know how to execute useradd and iptables commands in linux from PHP.How can i use the form data as arguments to the program.Please give the solution.

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By: Kirby

Kirby — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 06:10:55 +0000

Hi nixcraft, thanks for the Post.

I’m very interested in the next topic in line after this. I notice this is really old, and sorry to dig up such an old topic.

But, I’ve looked all over and can not find the next topic: How to use and place form elements (from POSTs and GETs)

Can you please let me know if you ever wrote that one? Thanks!!
I’d really like to read about that… more in dept how to control unix commands from a web page/url.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 22 May 2010 11:45:06 +0000

Hi,
I was happy to find your information. I was able to add a line to start a linux program, with the right attributes. For developing a script within a webpage with buttons I moved to a Ubuntu PC because I was developing on an embedded linux board.

Since I moved to the Ubuntu system your example still works but the line I placed in your example script does not.

Can you help me out what could be my problem ? If you want to take a look, please send me a message and I will send you my problem.

The command works from the command line in Ubuntu but not from the script…

TnX,
Ben

By: Guntur

Guntur — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:55:19 +0000

hi, my server is using CentOS.. where to put the cgi?

I don’t understand anything bout cgi..
but I want to execute a bash command from web page..
like mkdir or unzip etc..

please help me :)

thx

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:52:23 +0000

This is going little offtopic. I suggest you post it to our forum along with shell code if you have any and will continue discussion at our forum http://nixcraft.com/

By: berot3

berot3 — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:35:46 +0000

yepp works on mac, just the path of the cgi is different: /Library/Webserver/CGI-Executables/
but thats not what i was looking for :)
maybe u can help me / maybe have heard of someting like this:
i want to execute commands as if i would be a ssh-console but for http, u know what i mean?

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 08:03:22 +0000

Yes, it should work under Mac OS X too

By: berot3

berot3 — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:59:05 +0000

does it work on mac os x?

By: apctr

apctr — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:26:38 +0000

i want to execute vncviewer in web page.what should I have to do????????

By: narf

narf — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:36:39 +0000

I get this on the /var/log/httpd/error.log
Syntax error in type map, no ‘:’ in /var/www/cgi-bin/script.cgi for header “”\n

By: Pex

Pex — Thu, 14 May 2009 09:13:39 +0000

Hello,
I want to install web server with php support. what are the steps to be taken??
This is on Linux!!

Pliz help!!

By: mailmado

mailmado — Sat, 02 May 2009 05:51:53 +0000

hello
i want to run a simple mkdir command in cgi script which will take directory name from html page
pl help.

By: Ratnesh Bajpai

Ratnesh Bajpai — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:24:16 +0000

Hello i want to know the way to creating a directory in linux through browser execution using php. thnx in advance