How to Execute Ssh Commands Via PHP

How to run CLI commands in PHP on another server using SSH?

ssh2_connect or phpseclib

You can use ssh2_connect or phpseclib. On my EC2 instance I had to install the package for ssh2_connect (e.g. yum install php56-pecl-ssh2-0.12-5.15.amzn1.x86_64) as it wasn't there by default. Note: this could be done with a bash script as well.

<?php

//ssh2_connect:
$connection = ssh2_connect('localhost', 22);
ssh2_auth_password($connection, 'user', 'password');
$stream = ssh2_exec($connection, 'ls -l > /tmp/worked.txt');

//phpseclib:
include('Net/SSH2.php');
$ssh = new Net_SSH2('www.example.com');
$ssh->login('username', 'password') or die("Login failed");
echo $ssh->exec('command');

Further reading:

http://phpseclib.sourceforge.net/

http://php.net/manual/en/function.ssh2-connect.php

How To connect to remote server via PHP

Finally, I found the solution
Phpseclib isn't working for me

<?php
$connection = ssh2_connect('ip.22.222.2', 22);

if (ssh2_auth_password($connection, 'username', 'pass')) {
  echo "Authentication Successful!\n";
} else {
  die('Authentication Failed...');
}
?>

Replace The user/pass/IP with your own values

Execute a shell command through ssh using PHP

Try phpseclib, that'll work.

<?php
    include('Net/SSH2.php');

    $server = "myserver";
    $username = "myadmin";
    $password = "mypass";
    $command = "ps";

    $ssh = new Net_SSH2($server);
    if (!$ssh->login($username, $password)) {
        exit('Login Failed');
    }

    echo $ssh->exec($command);
?>

How can I execute remote commands in PHP via ssh?

If you can't add php packages due to red tape, here's a simple class that can do the trick

class ExecuteRemote
{
    private static $host;
    private static $username;
    private static $password;
    private static $error;
    private static $output;

    public static function setup($host, $username=NULL, $password=NULL)
    {
        self::$host = $host;
        self::$username = $username;
        self::$password = $password;
    }

    public static function executeScriptSSH($script)
    {
        // Setup connection string
        $connectionString = self::$host;
        $connectionString = (empty(self::$username) ? $connectionString : self::$username.'@'.$connectionString);

        // Execute script
        $cmd = "ssh $connectionString $script 2>&1";
        self::$output['command'] = $cmd;
        exec($cmd, self::$output, self::$error);

        if (self::$error) {
            throw new Exception ("\nError sshing: ".print_r(self::$output, true));
        }

        return self::$output;
    }
}

PHP Execute Shell Command And Retrieve The Output

Use escapeshellarg() to escape command argument. Please try like this

$host       =  escapeshellarg("user@router");
$commandArg =  escapeshellarg("/var/log/messages");
$result     = shell_exec('ssh ' . $host . ' cat ' . $commandArg);
echo $result, PHP_EOL;

Execute commands on remote machine via PHP

Run SSH commands through PHP on server A to server B.

Here is how to run ssh commands with the command line in linux: http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=fvwp&v=YLqqdQZHzsU

In order to run commands on linux with PHP use the exec() command.

I hope this will get you started looking in the right direction.

Look at these two posts for automating the password prompt

• https://serverfault.com/questions/241588/how-to-automate-ssh-login-with-password
• https://serverfault.com/questions/187036/execute-ssh-command-without-password

Here is a quick example with non-working code to get you thinking:

<?php

    $server = "serverB.example.org";
    //ip address will work too i.e. 192.168.254.254 just make sure this is your public ip address not private as is the example

    //specify your username
    $username = "root";

    //select port to use for SSH
    $port = "22";

    //command that will be run on server B
    $command = "uptime";

    //form full command with ssh and command, you will need to use links above for auto authentication help
    $cmd_string = "ssh -p ".$port." ".$username."@".$server." ".$command;

    //this will run the above command on server A (localhost of the php file)
    exec($cmd_string, $output);

    //return the output to the browser
    //This will output the uptime for server B on page on server A
    echo '<pre>';
    print_r($output);
    echo '</pre>';
?>

The recommended flow is to run a command on server A to SSH to server B

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