Turn off Forum via Shell Command Line?

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Originally Posted by zagman76

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Sorry to bump such an old thread, but I was wondering how one could manipulate this to do the reverse - turn the forum back ON via a script.

This script does already allow for that... you just have to pass a variable it to the script.

If calling from a shell (ie straight on the server using command line) you would call it like this:

> vbscript.php (will close the site)
> vbscript.php 1 (will open the site)
> vbscript.php 0 (will also close site)

I believe you can also use these through a direct call to the file from a web browser. I'm not sure the exact formatting, but it would be similar to "yourservername.com/vbscript.php?1"

Hope that helps.

Also from a security standpoint I wound't suggest allowing something like this to be call from a web browser and only use it on the command line.

I'm integrating this into a script I use to backup my site, but we are so large I need to have the site offline in order to make the 18GB backup.

PHP Page for reference on usage: http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserve...les.server.php

argv specific section:

'argv'
Array of arguments passed to the script. When the script is run on the command line, this gives C-style access to the command line parameters. When called via the GET method, this will contain the query string.