change ip address of server using PHP

Question

i need to be able to change the IP address of a server using PHP. i\'m trying to use ifconfig eth0 down as the www-data user to make sure it will

Answer 1

I had a similar problem and am considering the following solution:

1) The php page reads in the IP, Netmask, and gateway, checking for proper formatting and whether the IP is viable and writes that to a text file

2) A cronjob written in whatever, looks for that file, and if it is there, it reads in the contents, parses it, and makes the changes

This should be sufficiently secure.