Generating a .run file from a www-data script, please say I can...

How can I get a www-data:www-data script to create a .run file? I need this badly....
Maybe it can be validated somehow (the www-data user script)

 

Do you mean /home/admispconfig/ispconfig/.run?
You could make /home/admispconfig/ispconfig world-writable, e.g.

Code:

chmod 777 /home/admispconfig/ispconfig

 

Would that be secure?
I did a new deamon to check for my new .run (wiki.data) file... but I dont know if this is OK. I mean, it works, but I dont like to have a deamon only to run the *final* step for the wiki installation.
Also I tried to make ispconfig_wconf deamon to check for that new .run (wiki.data) file but I guess my sintax is not OK (I dont know bash).
How could I modify this to get the deamon ispconfig_wconf to check also for another file? for example /var/www/installers/wiki_temp/wiki.data

Code:

while (true) do
  if [ -f /home/admispconfig/ispconfig/.run ]; then
    rm -f /home/admispconfig/ispconfig/.run
    /root/ispconfig/php/php -q /root/ispconfig/scripts/writeconf.php &> /dev/null
  fi
  sleep 10
done

 

It's ok as long as you don't chown the other directories in /home/admispconfig/ispconfig!

You can try something like this:

Code:

while (true) do
  if [ -f /home/admispconfig/ispconfig/.run ] || [ -f /var/www/installers/wiki_temp/wiki.data ]; then
    rm -f /home/admispconfig/ispconfig/.run  &> /dev/null
    rm -f /var/www/installers/wiki_temp/wiki.data  &> /dev/null
    /root/ispconfig/php/php -q /root/ispconfig/scripts/writeconf.php &> /dev/null
  fi
  sleep 10
done

 

I downloaded MediaWiki and found out it has its own installer. The installer is very good, and I dont want to rewrite it.
Of course, the user begans the installation in ispconfig. He provide:

1) Database name
2) Password
3) Install path

Then I write those data plus some extra ones to a mysql table so writeconf.php can read them and copy all wiki files to the user directory, but at this moment I can't chown the install path to the real username, I must leave it as www-data, because after the ispconfig installer copies all necessary files to the directory the user has chosen, I request him to follow a link and *finish* the installation with the real wiki install script. This script runs as www-data and attempt to generate a config file when the user has completed the install process. That's why I must leave the directory as www-data owner, until the final step of the wiki installation.

And that's why I wanted to integrate de wiki install script to the .run system, because I wanted to make:
1) a final chown -R $username:web$web_id for the wiki path
2) delete de config/ directory
3) chmod go-w the generated config file.

So the user has to do very, very little to install wiki.

 

Maybe there is a way to validate the installation script like with md5?

 

I like that, but I've never done something similar before... so I'm a little lost on how to execute the final.php from the wiki install script and pass the md5 hash hidden to the user.
Would i have to put a function like this in the wiki script?

Code:

function finish($hash) {
    exec("/home/admispconfig/.../final.php?var=$hash);
}

Sorry, my experience is limited...