[Resolved] copy question

[scialom]

Hi,

Can I copy a file from one website to other?

Or what are my options to move a file from site to site?

Thanks,
Assaf

[AstroTeg]

I believe you could direct copy the file if a part of the other server's file system is mounted to the local server. Then the local server would see the other server's directory as if it was its own. This is handy if the servers are on the same physical network. But if they're on seperate networks, this is probably not the way to go.

FTP is more of a tried and true way to transfer files between two machines. I'd recommend this approach and you can have PHP initiate an FTP session assuming PHP has the FTP commands enabled. If not and you have access to the shell, you can setup a shell script to do this too (either with FTP, Lynx, or wget).

[scialom]

Ok ftp sound good solution, but now I have a problem:

I conncect to server 1 from server 2:
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server2);

// login with username and password
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass);

// check connection
if ((!$conn_id) || (!$login_result)) {
echo "FTP connection has failed!";
echo "Attempted to connect to $ftp_server for user $ftp_user_name";
exit;
} else {
echo "Connected to $ftp_server, for user $ftp_user_name";
}

ftp_chdir ($conn_id,"www/images/g");

now I want to change the directory on server 1 - how can I do it?

Thanks,
Assaf

[AstroTeg]

I think simply with just the chdir command.

[scialom]

Thanks! You solved my problem...