Custom DNS records via script?

[Pedja]

I need an option to set DNS records for specific DNS zone via script on my web site on cpanel account. More precise, I have domain hosted on cpanel account, and want to provide an option to setup subdomains but only as DNS records. I also control WHM where cpanel is located.

Anyone knows some good resource?

[AndrewT]

Unfortunately cPanel does not provide any way to do this.

[Pedja]

I know, but I hoped someone hacked it a bit


Here is my attempt, which failed:

<?php


			$url = 'https://user:pass@whm.domain.com:2087/cgi/zoneeditor.cgi';

			$ch = curl_init();

      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, 'cookies.txt');
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query(array(
					'zone'=> 'test.domain.com.db',
					'prog'=> 'savezone',
          'line-1-1' => '; cPanel first:11.23.6-STABLE_27545 latest:11.23.6-NIGHTLY_27537 Cpanel::ZoneFile::VERSION:1.2 mtime:1231186329' ,
          'line-2-1' => '; Zone file for test.domain.com', 
          'line-3-1' => '$TTL 14400',
					'line-4-1' => 'test.domain.com.',
					'line-4-2' => '14400',
					'line-4-3' => 'IN',
					'line-4-4' => 'SOA',
					'line-4-5' => 'ns1.domain.com.',
					'line-4-6' => 'office.domain.com.',
					'line-4-7' => '(',
					'line-4-8' => '2009010503',
					'line-4-9' => '14400',
					'line-4-10' => '7200',
					'line-4-11' => '3600000',
					'line-4-12' => '86400',
          'line-4-13' => ')',
					'line-5-1' => '',
					'line-6-1' => 'test.domain.com.',
					'line-6-2' => '14400',
					'line-6-3' => 'IN',
					'line-6-4' => 'NS',
					'line-6-5' => 'ns1.domain.com.',
					'line-7-1' => 'test.domain.com.',
					'line-7-2' => '14400',
					'line-7-3' => 'IN',
					'line-7-4' => 'NS',
					'line-7-5' => 'ns2.domain.com.',
					'line-8-1' => '',
          'line-9-1' => 'test.domain.com.',
					'line-9-2' => '14400',
					'line-9-3' => 'IN',
					'line-9-4' => 'A',
					'line-9-5' => '75.126.144.69',
					'line-10-1' => '',
					'line-11-1' => 'localhost',
					'line-11-2' => '14400',
					'line-11-3' => 'IN',
					'line-11-4' => 'A',
					'line-11-5' => '127.0.0.1',
					'line-12-1' => '',
					'line-13-1' => 'test.domain.com.',
          'line-13-2' => '14400',
					'line-13-3' => 'IN',
					'line-13-4' => 'MX',
					'line-13-5' => '0',
					'line-13-6' => 'test.domain.com.',
					'line-14-1' => '',
					'line-15-1' => 'mail',
					'line-15-2' => '14400',
					'line-15-3' => 'IN',
					'line-15-4' => 'CNAME',
					'line-15-5' => 'test.domain.com.',
					'line-16-1' => 'www',
					'line-16-2' => '14400',
          'line-16-3' => 'IN',
					'line-16-4' => 'CNAME',
					'line-16-5' => 'test.domain.com.',
					'line-17-1' => 'wwa',
					'line-17-2' => '14400',
          'line-17-3' => 'IN',
					'line-17-4' => 'CNAME',
					'line-17-5' => 'test.domain.com.',
					'line-18-1' => 'ftp',
					'line-18-2' => '14400',
					'line-18-3' => 'IN',
					'line-18-4' => 'A',
					'line-18-5' => '75.126.144.69',
					'submit' => 'Save'
      )));
      
      $data = curl_exec($ch);
			$info = curl_getinfo($ch);
echo "<pre>";
print_r ($data);
print_r ($info);

echo "</pre>";

?>

[ZYV]

Looks reasonable. Where exactly does it fail, what are the error messages coming from WHM? Does it authenticate successfully or not?

You may wish to look into

http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4283.html

for inspiration.

[ZYV]

Maybe reconsider your approach having this read?

[Pedja]

It won't help. I want to be able to set subdomains but point them to arbitrary dNS (basically, all I need is to set NS records for each subdomain). I do not need to open accounts, and for the most domains I do not even need to host them at Dathorn.

Yes, I still did not manage to make working script to do that.