There are plenty of software's to monitor and control Apache, Nginx, SAMBA fileserver etc. But there is one special need that pushed me to search for this. Problem I have been using a small precompiled binary on Ubuntu EC2 instance for an specific purpose. I have that binary as a service which starts as Ubuntu starts and accessible by systemctl or the command service start stop status. Now i have the process running smooth but i want to monitor it and the second requirement is to add new users to the configuration file. Both of these jobs need to be done via web interface. Step 1: Choosing a platform, from the beginning i choosed PHP over any other language, in 2006 for my MSc Project automation over internet i tried 3 languages but atlast PHP worked. This time too i choose PHP out of options NodeJS, Python, PHP . Step 2 started with simplest code. $output=shell_exec('ls'); and then print the variable $output via echo $output . Now this worked v...