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PHP and SSH

  • 11-01-2008 05:02PM
    #1
    Zombrex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25,848 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi guys

    I am trying to set up a SSH tunnel with port mapping to a database server so I can connect using Postgresql PHP command pg_connect to tunnel through the SSH connection to the database

    Basically something like this 
    $ssh_com = "ssh -L 5432:db_server:5432 wicknight@db_server &";
exec ($ssh_com);

pg_connect ("host=localhost port=5432 user=wicknight etc etc");

    I have a pub/private key set up under the apache user so the SSH command doesn't need a password The ssh command runs fine from the command line under the apache user and I can run just a normal ssh command to like read a directory or something just fine.

    it seems to just run and stop as if finsihed when run from PHP.

    Anyone know how to get this to work?

    Or is this a really dumb way of doing what I want (basically the database server is in a DMZ that only allows ssh but I still want to be able to connect to the DB)


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