nike_guy_man — Fri, 22 Mar 2002 12:01:04 +0000

I think I'll be using perl or PHP....
What permissions need to be set?

Peter J. Boettcher — Thu, 21 Mar 2002 16:02:23 +0000

You can do the same thing with ASP/IIS, but you'll need to have the permissions set correctly.

To stop/start a website:

set IISOBJ = getObject("IIS://localhost/w3svc/1")
IISOBJ.Stop
set IISOBJ = nothing

Just replace Stop with Start to start it. The 1 refers to the instanceID of the website.

Wil — Thu, 21 Mar 2002 09:51:59 +0000

Yes. Anything (well, nearly) is possible with Perl. Probably is with PHP or ASP too, but I have limited knoweldge of these languages.

What exactly do you want to do?

The easy way to kill a process would be:

my $pid
system ("kill -HUP $pid");

The _biggest_ problems you will face is permissions. You will most likely need to be root to restart/shut down your web server. This could prove tricky using any programming language, as the web server usually treats users as user nobody.

This is assuming you're trying to do this from a web browser, of course?