Thanks for the tips. sudo reboot or sudo shutdown -r now doesn't work either. 
Changing apache config files wouldn't also help because I can't restart apache 
or maybe I can use "service restart httpd" ???

> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:46:44 -0500
> From: [email protected]
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> Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] A linux question
> 
> Bruce Nik wrote:
>> Should the following file (if run from [a browser]) reboot the system: 
>> /var/www/cgi-bin/reboot
>> 
>> #!/bin/bash
>> echo "Content-type: text/html"
>> echo ""
>> echo "Bash as CGI"
>> echo ""
>> echo "Rebooting now $(shutdown -r now)"
>> echo ""
>>
>> 
> It might, but not on a correctly configured system.
> 
> The web server account should not have system admin privileges on the 
> machine,
> for obvious and basic security reasons.
> 
> You might be able to allow it using sudo; you'd just have to make an 
> entry in the
> sudo config file to allow "apache" or "httpd" or whatever, to use the 
> command "shutdown -r".
> 
> I would also change the 2nd last line to:
> 
> echo "Rebooting now..."
> sudo shutdown -r now
> 
> e.g., there is no reason to embed the shutdown inside an echo, it wouldn't 
> seem to buy you anything.
> 
> 
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