I am trying to call the following script from my HTML page and have tried a miriad of ways to do so from php to perl/cgi to javascript and nothing is working. Please help I want an alert when someone accesses my page and I want to use netcat for the alert. I have nc working with my aasterisk server fin but I want to use the apache as well. The script is alerter and is located in the /usr/local/bin tree and contains the following ========================================================== #!/bin/bash /bin/echo -n -e "New Visitor" | /usr/bin/nc -w 1 x.x.x.213 10629 ========================================================== The script runs fine from the command line but how do I call it from an html page (or php even) thank you
There is no proper way to do this in HTML however within PHP try putting the path of the bash file within tics (`) or alternatively use the shell_exec() function to call the bash file. This may however be disabled in PHP. Some admins remove this functionality due to the potential security implications.