Execute php file remote server using ssh

July 6, 2021 . 1 MIN READ

<?php
	/**
	* Simple code for executing commands on a remote Linux server via SSH in PHP
	*
	* @author Phil Kershaw (In collaboration with Philip Mott)
	*
	* Note: ssh2_connect requires libssh2-php which is a non-standard PHP lib.
	* Debian: apt-get install libssh2-php
	* Redhat: yum install libssh2-php ???? I’ve no idea for redhat, sorry.
	*/
	$server = “server”; // server IP/hostname of the SSH server
	$username = “root”; // username for the user you are connecting as on the SSH server
	$password = “root”; // password for the user you are connecting as on the SSH server
	$command = “tail /var/log/access.log”; // could be anything available on the server you are SSH’ing to

	// Establish a connection to the SSH Server. Port is the second param.
	$connection = ssh2_connect($server, 22);

	// Authenticate with the SSH server
	ssh2_auth_password($connection, $username, $password);

	// Execute a command on the connected server and capture the response
	$stream = ssh2_exec($connection, $command);

	// Sets blocking mode on the stream
	stream_set_blocking($stream, true);

	// Get the response of the executed command in a human readable form
	$output = stream_get_contents($stream);

	// echo output
	echo “<pre>{$output}</pre>”;