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Denis Omeri
Denis Omeri

Reputation: 610

restart Sphinx from php

Can anybody help me? I'm using sphinx searcher, but i have many databases. I dynamically controll them (change the sphinx config file ), but after i add an index to the config file sphinx needs to be restarted. I have created an bash script for doing this (stop shpinx, start it, indexer --rotate --all ) and when i run the script from terminal it is ok, but when i run from apache server it is not working. How can i do this without changenig the owner of the apache server to root ( it will decrease the security of my server )?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 428

Answers (1)

Nick
Nick

Reputation: 71

How can i do this without changenig the owner of the apache server to root

How about sudo? Put something like this in your sudoers...

apache ALL= NOPASSWD: /path/to/script command

The catch is to make sure that the script cannot be exploited... as it is running as root... ie is read-only + exec for apache, ensure that commands/switches you send to the script are sanity checked.

I hope that helps,
Kind Regards,
Nick

Upvotes: 1

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