Shell Programming and Scripting

Dudes, this is a minecraft server. I dont really care about security, ive lost everything multiple times before due to hosting issues and I gotta tell you it wasn't the end of the world. The community adapted.



My issue now is that we are running the latest snapshot servers and they are really unstable. They shut down randomly because of updates or bugs and there is nothing I can do about that. Now my server managers really would like to be able to start / stop servers through a web app rather than having to login and go to cron jobs all the time. They already have RCon at their disposal but that doesn't help them start the servers after they have been stopped. Now a few simple buttons with start, stop, restart is probably not so much of a security risk and let them hack me if they want to waste their time cause there's no secure info kept on these servers.

No worries.

If you need to start and stop, then that's a different story.

I would do this with a PHP script with HTTP authentication (.htaccess) and a userid and password in the PHP login script.

Why would they have to login? The cronjob is doing the job right? Have it check every 5 minutes or so and you should be fine. Am I missing the point here?
Also, I am agreeing here that you are neglecting the problem...

First, let's try hosting a website using your personal computer with the Windows operating system.
Step 1: Install the WAMP Software.
Step 2: Using WampServer.
Step 3: Creating an HTML Page.
Step 4: Configure MySQL.
Step 5: Make the Site Public.
Step 6: Using a Domain Name.
Step 1: Install Software.
Step 2: Check PHP.
This is the best technique for solving the Web page to start server.

Marck
The LAMP is already working and the script obviously runs because I get output on my screen but possibly doesn't start the server because its running in the wrong directory or needs permissions to execute the screen command, how could a windows box help?


Thanks jgt, I already have webmin installed but it doesn't provide what we need. Though I welcome your post as it may help others. On a side note, don't use webmin for secure servers with secure data.

or you could install webmin

Setting up a secure LAMP server and writing a user id and password authentication form is NOT rocket science.

Why so much churn over a simple basic technology which is used my millions upon millions of people daily?