How to remotely stop/start a server with php?

I need a php script and linux shell to start and stop my server remotely.
I can not find a plugin that does it :(...

 

You would have to code a plugin to stop the server when it recieves the command, then work around with shell_exec($command) to start it again.

Or, you could use a server wrapper, or make one.

 

This should do it:

Code:

shell_exec("echo 'password_goes_here' | sudo -u user_goes_here -S /path/to/bukkit/startscript.sh start");

 

Exactly Snaipe, I want to use shell_exec but with www-data user's right, it does not work. So thank you Monopol, it's excellent, I'll try it

 

You could try SpaceBukkit, which is a PHP server wrapper.

http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/we...eta-web-administration-the-awesome-way.58252/

Or you could use RemoteToolkit on its own, which has telnet and a bunch of other remote goodies.

 

RemoteToolkit is a good solution. Not web based though.

 

www-data cannot exec sudo in the default config.
Another possibility is to connect over ssh on the server.
You only need the libssh2 package (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net/techblog/article/make_ssh_connections_with_php/)

Then you could use a Serverstart/stopscript. I used the Teamspeak 3 Serverscript and modify'd it for the Minecraftserver. Any another Script should work too.

You can executed commands with libssh2 like this:

PHP:

<?
$user = "minecraft";
$password = "OLOLOL";
if($ssh = ssh2_connect('127.0.0.1', 22)) {
    if(ssh2_auth_password($ssh, $user, $password)) {
        $stream = ssh2_exec($ssh, './server.sh start');  //The Command to do
        stream_set_blocking($stream, true);
        $data = '';
        while($buffer = fread($stream, 4096)) {
            $data .= $buffer;
        }
        fclose($stream);
      echo "<pre>";
        echo $data; //Prints the output
        echo "</pre>";
    }
}
?>

 

Ok thank you guys. The methods work perfectly, and I made a third .
I put chmod 777 -R on the folder minecraft (the startservers.sh is into the minecraft folder). I hope it is not dangerous for the security . Because having the password in a php file, I'm a little afraid (if apache bug and displays the php source). But thank you very much all, the Postbote technique is very interesting!

 

If your server runs McMyAdmin, you can use the McMyAdmin API to stop and start the server via any means you like.

 

http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/websend/

I think you can do what you want with this.

 

Using the php-ssh extension, you could just send command via SSH.

 

Spacebukkit went into beta about a month ago. While it's currently lacking in features, the three devs are very talented and I see this admin panel going places. I'm using it, and already it replaced MCMA in almost every way I needed it to.

http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/we...eta-web-administration-the-awesome-way.58252/