Execute a command in other server

varadorn

I wonder whether there is a way when people click submit from a form, it will execute a command or script in another server, not a web server that is running.

For example, machine A running Apache and PHP, and machine B running Informix Database. How can I write a code so that it would execute some command or script in machine B?

Thank you very much for you help.

Anon

I'm not sure what you're trying to do, but the Informix functions can directly communicate with an Informix server running on another physical box.

varadorn

Thank you Steve; however, what I am trying to do is that I have 2 Servers, one is Linux box running apache, and another one is Sco box running Informix (IDS 7.31) Database. I have installed Client SDK so my linux can retrieve the query request to the SCO box with no problem. What I need is that I want to execute some script that I wrote in SCO box when I access and click on a button from the web page on Linux box. I wonder whether it's possible and how? My idea is that I can have a script in linux box to telnet to SCO box and execute a command there, but I am not sure how to do it. Thank you again.

Anon

It might be a little bit tricky to set up, but you should be able to have PHP on the Web server run "ssh username@scobox scriptname" and get the job done. The ssh suite may or may not compile on your SCO box, however. It probably has rsh installed; that might be reasonably secure if the SCO box is unreachable from the outside world, and the setup is protected with tcpwrappers ... but I'd recommend ssh instead.

Alternatively, run a Web server on the SCO box, with PHP or a CGI program invoking your script locally. PHP on your Web server could hit a remote url to on your SCO box to trigger the action (see the file section of the PHP manual for details). You could use .htaccess on the SCO box to protect the script from outside interference, and you wouldn't even have to run it on port 80. For that matter, it could be Apache in non-daemon mode, invoked by inetd.

varadorn

Thank you very very much. 🙂