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canadian_tracke
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August 11th, 2017 06:00
PHP script to create a directory and symlink
Good day!
I am trying to write a php script to create a directory then make a symlink to that directory. So far, I cannot even get the directory created. The authentication has even been simplified to rule that out.
Here is what I have. This script is trying to create the folder 'NewFolder'. Any hints?
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$ch = curl_init();
$auth=base64_encode("username:password");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://media-vault:8080/namespace/ifs/home/username/NewFolder");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "PUT");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "username" . ":" . "password");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PUT, true);
$headers = array();
$headers[] = "X-Isi-Ifs-Target-Type: container";
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
echo "\nError:" . curl_error($ch) ."\n\n";
}
curl_close ($ch);
canadian_tracke
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Posted August 11th, 2017 10:00
Hello Peter!
That user can run this from a shell on a remote machine. It creates the directory fine:
curl --insecure --user username:password -H "x-isi-ifs-target-type: container" -v "https://media-vault:8080/namespace/ifs/home/username/NewFolder" -X PUT
KyleFransham
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Posted August 11th, 2017 11:00
For debugging, you can try a similar curl comand from the command line:
curl -X PUT -k --user 'username:password' --header 'x-isi-ifs-target-type:container' https://media-vault:8080/namespace/ifs/anewfolder
Also, you might consider appending a ?recursive=true flag to your url if the /ifs/home/username folder doesn't exist yet.
FYI:
The RAN API does not support creating a symlink today. You will need to have your SE file a feature request for that. But creating a directory does work, as long as you have the RBAC permissions for Namespace access and you have permission to create a directory at that point in the filesystem.
Anonymous User
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Posted August 11th, 2017 13:00
Make sure that the node you're authenticating to is the same node that you're issuing subsequent commands on. If you're using a SmartConnect zone, you will get authentication errors.
canadian_tracke
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Posted August 15th, 2017 05:00
Thank you all for the responses!
All very helpful!
Even with all the permissions correct and hitting the direct IP address of the isilon-node, my script still does not create a directory. Using the same credentials and IP address, I can create the directory with curl but not with PHP. Any hints or examples?
Peter_Sero
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Posted August 11th, 2017 09:00
What error message do you get?
Does the user have the ISI_PRIV_NS_IFS_ACCESS privilege for the namespace API,
via a custom role?
-- Peter