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How can i write a script to execute commands on the webserver from a browser?

I want to create a script with the php exec() or system() function to execute commands from a remote browser on the webserver. I am open to using Perl or whatever. I am using an Apache2 webserver on Ubuntu.

I have done quite a bit of research on this on google and read lots of responses about permissions of the server, why not use ssh instead etc. etc..

I know of other ways to do this but I am really interested in how I can make this work from the browser. Thanks in advance.
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KNIFE-EXEC(1)							    Chef Manual 						     KNIFE-EXEC(1)

NAME
knife-exec - Run user scripts using the Chef API DSL SYNOPSIS
knife exec (options) -E, --exec CODE Provide a snippet of code to evaluate on the command line DESCRIPTION
knife exec runs arbitrary ruby scripts in a context similar to that of the shef(1) DSL. See the shef documentation for a description of the commands available. EXAMPLES
Make an API call against an arbitrary endpoint knife exec -E 'api.get("nodes/fluke.localdomain/cookbooks")' => list of cookbooks for the node fluke.localdomain Remove the role obsolete from all nodes knife exec -E 'nodes.transform(:all){|n| n.run_list.delete("role[obsolete]")}' Generate the expanded run list for hosts in the webserver role knife exec -E 'nodes.find(:roles => "webserver") {|n| n.expand!; n[:recipes]}' SEE ALSO
shef(1) AUTHOR
Chef was written by Adam Jacob adam@opscode.com with many contributions from the community. DOCUMENTATION
This manual page was written by Joshua Timberman joshua@opscode.com. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and / or modify this docu- ment under the terms of the Apache 2.0 License. CHEF
Knife is distributed with Chef. http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Home Chef 10.12.0 June 2012 KNIFE-EXEC(1)