Make SSH Connections With PHP 6 minute read Not everyone knows about 's capabilities of making connections and executing remote commands, but it can be very useful. I've been using it a lot in PHP applications that I run from cronjobs, but initially it was a pain to get it to work. The is not very practicle or thorough for that matter, so I would like to share my knowledge in this how to, to make it a little less time consuming setting this up. In this article I'm going to assume that: • You're running Debian / If not, you will have to substitute the package manager aptitude with whatever your distribution provides • You're running PHP 5 If not, just replace php5 with php4 everywhere • You have basic knowledge of PHP & server administration • You already have PHP installed Update On recent Ubuntu machines, there's no need to do any compiling anymore. $ cd /usr/src && wget && tar -zxvf libssh2-0.14.tar.gz && cd libssh2-0. Easyphp 5.3.2. 14/ &&./configure && make all install That's it! • Update: since December 26th 2008, libssh2 has reached version 1.0.

// SSH Public Key File. Php ssh2_connect ('IP', 'port'. I used an sftp connection to get a file list and used 'exec' to download the files afterwards with an. Sometimes you need to move/migrate files to another server/hosting, and you/your client only have FTP access to the server. And to download these files and re-upload to another server can take a lot of time using FTP client such as Filezilla.

Though I have not tested it: it has been reported to work. So you may want to check and download the latest stable version. Installation ssh2.so Next we need to link libssh & PHP together. There's a module for this so let's install using. Extension =ssh2.so Great! PHP Supports SSH - Time to Code You've just enabled ssh2 support in PHP.

Now how can we make use of this? There are 2 options. SSH supports the: • Execute method This tells the server's operating system to execute something and pipe the output back to your script. (recommended) • Shell method This opens an actual shell to the operating system, just as you would normally when logging in with your terminal application.

Some that don't have a full POSIX compliant implementation, but run their own application as soon as you login, require this. (advanced) Method 1: Execute Best would be to create functions or even a class for the following code, but this is the basic idea and will definitely get you started. Doesn't work? Check the following: • Did you follow every step of the prerequisites & installation how to in this article? • On the serverside, 'PasswordAuthentication yes' must be enabled in the sshd_config.

Default is yes on most servers, but in some cases you will have to turn this on yourself by making sure the following line is in place in the file: /etc/ssh/sshd_config: PasswordAuthentication yes If you've made any changes, ssh needs a restart. /tmp/pear/download/ssh2-0.11.0/ssh2_fopen_wrappers. Passive And Active Immunity Pdf Printer on this page. c:49: error: for each function it appears IN. ) make: *** [ssh2_fopen_wrappers.lo] Error 1 ERROR: `make ' failed This is the (thanks to BuNker). Alternatives There have been some additional developments since the writing of this article. Checkout: •, PEAR's SSH wrapper (driver based to support multiple ways of establishing the connection) •, another wrapper by Jaimie Sirovich •, a pure PHP implementation - no additional libraries, binaries, bindings required (against all odds, still pretty fast with mcrypt installed) Categories:,,,,,,,, Updated: July 24, 2007 Discuss on.