Using CURL to login to Cpanel

[tyler03]

Ok, so I'm trying to use CURL to login to my cpanel (and eventually add on subdomains from a list for me automatically), but it refuses to login for me. Here's what I've got so far...

<?php
// INIT CURL
$ch = curl_init();

// SET URL FOR THE POST FORM LOGIN
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'www.example.com:2082');

// ENABLE HTTP POST
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

// SET POST PARAMETERS : FORM VALUES FOR EACH FIELD
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'login_theme=cpanel&user=USERNAME&pass=PASSWORD');

// IMITATE CLASSIC BROWSER'S BEHAVIOUR : HANDLE COOKIES
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, 'http://www.example.com/curl/cookie.txt');

# Setting CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER variable to 1 will force cURL
# not to print out the results of its query.
# Instead, it will return the results as a string return value
# from curl_exec() instead of the usual true/false.
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

// EXECUTE 1st REQUEST (FORM LOGIN)
$store = curl_exec ($ch);
echo curl_exec($ch);

// CLOSE CURL
curl_close ($ch);

?>

However all it does is echo the cpanel login screen instead of the screen you get once you're logged in...any idea where I'm going wrong here?

 

[quaffapint]

The cookiejar is a cookie file generated on the local file system, not a url.

 

[erect]

Tyler ... it's going to be much easier just setting up wild card sub-domains and retrieving the information from your database. What you are doing really sounds like a pain in the ass way of adding subdomains.

 

[Stanley]

Here's an API I'm using for my own code. It's a lot more powerful than the official cPanel API, however, it's not compatible with X3 so you'll need to revert to the X theme if you want to use it: File: cPanel.php - cPanel API - PHP Classes

 

[xmcp123]

This is what I have for hostmonster. Shouldn't take much to mod. I forget if it uses their CPanel or custom interfact though.

<?php 
function createSubdomain($createURL,$dLoc)
{
$docRoot="public_html/".$dLoc;
$docRoot=str_replace("//","/",$docRoot);
$rootDomain=getDomain($createURL);
$subdomain=getSub($createURL);
$createString="rootdomain=".urlencode($rootDomain)."&domain=".urlencode($subdomain)."&dir=".urlencode($docRoot)."&go=Create";
echo $createString."<br><br><br>";

$url="http://YOUR_IP_HERE:2082/frontend/hostmonster/subdomain/index.html";
$useragent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1";
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, 'YOUR_USERNAME_HERE:YOUR_PASSWORD_HERE');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $useragent);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER  ,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "c:/cookie-hm-jar.txt");
curl_setopt($ch, curlOPT_COOKIEFILE, "c:/cookie-hm-jar.txt");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION  ,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, 1);
$data=curl_exec($ch);
if(curl_error($ch))
{
    echo curl_error($ch)."<br>";
}

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://YOUR_IP_HERE:2082/frontend/hostmonster/subdomain/doadddomain.html');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $createString);
$data=curl_exec($ch);
$data=str_replace("<meta ","<dud ",$data);
curl_close($ch);
if(stristr($data,"has been created")===FALSE)
{
    die($data);
}
}
function getSub($url)
{
    $spl=explode(".",$url);
    return($spl[0]);
}
function getDomain($url)
{
    $spl=explode(".",$url);
    return($spl[1].".".$spl[2]);
}
?>

It's a library for a script I use, but might be a good starting point for whoever needs it.