Get HTTP arguments when using PHP as CGI

Jeb — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:45:50 +0000

Normaly when you use PHP as CGI, $_GET and $_POST should work as usual.
But in certain configuration, they may not be set. In this case this code is the base to get args

foreach (split('&',$QUERY_STRING) as $tmp) { $tmp2 = split('=',$tmp); $$tmp2[0]=$tmp2[1]; }

Remote Web Site Incremental Backup

Jeb — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:41:32 +0000

Problem: You have a web site on a server but can’t connect to it with ssh but only FTP and you want to backup it daily but the website is huge, too huge to make a complete backup daily

My solution is to put a php script on the webserver that list files with a modification date in the last X seconds.
Then within the following shell script I get the result of the php page then I retreive listed file using FTP.

This is, I think, the most generic solution. I see an other one:

It would be to create a tar archive in the php script, then download the .tar directly. This as 2 problems: It’s less secure unless you can apply an htaccess file on the .tar file to put an auth, you may not be allowed to execute binary on the remote server to do the tar.
You may also use FTPFS, it’s nice, but require that the host making the backup can use ftpfs

This is the source of my SH script

#! /bin/sh

BK_YEAR="`date +%Y`"
BK_MONTH="`date +%b`"
BK_DAY="`date +%d`"

for file in `lynx -auth=login:password -source http://www.domain.com/admtool/last-modified.php`
do ADL="`echo $file | sed "s|/path/to/www.domain.com/root/document/or/the/ftp/chroot/path/||"`"
mkdir -p "/some/path/backup/domain.com/$BK_YEAR/$BK_MONTH/$BK_DAY/web-page/`dirname $ADL`"
wget -q --output-document="/some/path/backup/domain.com/$BK_YEAR/$BK_MONTH/$BK_DAY/web-page/$ADL" -r "ftp://login:pass@ftp.domain.com/$ADL"
done

tar -czf "/some/path/backup/domain.com/$BK_YEAR/$BK_MONTH/$BK_DAY/web-page.tgz" "/some/path/backup/domain.com/$BK_YEAR/$BK_MONTH/$BK_DAY/web-page"
rm -r "/some/path/wd1a/backup/domain.com/$BK_YEAR/$BK_MONTH/$BK_DAY/web-page"

This is the source of my PHP script

= '.';
$time = 86400;      // will print all file modified in the last 86400 seconds

$curtime = time();

GetFileList($path);

function GetFileList($path) {
$curtime = time();
        $handle=opendir($path);
                while($file = readdir($handle)) {
                        if ($file=='.' || $file=='..') continue;
                        if (is_dir($path . '/' . $file)) {
                                GetFileList($path . '/' . $file);
                        }
                        else {
                                if (($curtime - filemtime($path . '/' . $file)) < 86400) {
                                        echo $path . '/' . $file . "n";
                                }
                        }
                }
        closedir($handle);
}

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Get HTTP arguments when using PHP as CGI

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