About
Web Console is a web-based application that allows to execute shell commands on a server directly from a browser (web-based shell).
The application is very light, does not require any database and can be installed and configured in about 3 minutes. Installation process is really simple:
- Download latest version of the Web Console.
- Unpack archive and open file
webconsole.php
in your favorite text editor. - At the beginning of the file enter your
$USER
and$PASSWORD
credentials, edit any other settings that you like (see description in the comments). - Upload changed
webconsole.php
file to the web server and open it in the browser.
Clean interface
Web Console has an easy to use and clean interface. It looks and feels like a real shell terminal.Secure
You can configure HTTPS (SSL) on your web server and all Web Console traffic will be protected. Also, Web Console has a mark to search engines that will disallow the Web Console page from indexing.Simple installation
Installation and configuration process is really simple. Web Console does not require any database and can be installed and configured in about 3 minutes. Application can be easily installed on a shared web hosting.Open-source
Web Console is open-source application and can be customized by anyone. Checkout Web Console repository at GitHub.Donate
Web Console is available for free for everyone to modify and distribute, source code is available at GitHub repository. If you like Web Console, please consider an opportunity to support it in any amount of Bitcoin. A successful fundraiser will help to continue Web Console development.
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Frequently Asked Questions
- When I pass command to Web Console, under which user account it is executed on the web server?
- By default Web Console is running under the web server user account
(or for some web server configurations it is a specified user, who run scripts).
All commands, which you pass to Web Console, executed using that user account.
For example, execute
id
command in the Web Console and you will see current user account information. For example:user@skynet /tmp$ id uid=33(www) gid=33(www) groups=33(www)
- How to run command with
sudo
(asroot
) using Web Console? - To run commands using
sudo
you need to configure/etc/sudoers
file. You can read more information about it in sudo offical manual page. For example, executeid
command in the Web Console and you will see user account under which Web Console is running:Now you need allow that user to useuser@skynet /tmp$ id uid=33(www) gid=33(www) groups=33(www)
sudo
. For example, we will allow that user to run any commands asroot
usingsudo
without password (but, we are highly recommend run Web Console with minimal permissions, depends on your Web Console usage requirements). To do that, add following line to the/etc/sudoers
file:Herewww ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
www
is a user account under which Web Console is running (see above). Now you can execute commands withsudo
, for example:user@skynet /tmp$ sudo id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
- How to run
vi
/vim
orping
— commands that waiting for some input or executes something infinitely using Web Console? - When Web Console executes command on the web server side, it is waiting for
command result (output) and sends that result back to you.
So, if your command is waiting for some input (like
vi
/vim
) or executes something infinitely (likeping
) you can't directly send input (orCTRL-C
) to that kind of commands using Web Console. As alternative, you can usesed
text editor (see sed website) or tools like Expect that will pass required input to that kind of commands.
- How to run command on remote (another) server using Web Console?
- Just write script that will run passed command on the required remote server and simply call this script with Web Console and pass command to it. Also, you can use some tools like Expect. You can easily customize Web Console source code to run this script automatically for all passed commands or to wrap all passed commands with another commands that will call it on another server (see Web Console repository at GitHub).