Please Help! Copying a file...

m_tt

Ok, here is my situation. I have websites spread across 3 servers... all of these websites need to be protected by the same htpasswd file. So, I setup one central htpasswd file on Server #1 and write to that file.

How can I copy that file to the other 2 servers?

Please help, I am stumped on this one and it's urgent! 🙁

Thanks,
Matt

m_tt

btw, by copy I mean... I need the script to copy the file to the other 2 servers. The script will then be setup on a cron to run every 5 minutes.

Please help 🙁

Thanks,
Matt

zapa

found this at:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php

you can upload a file to the server with ftp

<?
ftp_connect($ftp_server);
//which can connect to the ftp server using an active connection. 
ftp_login ($conn_id, $ftp_username."@".$ftp_server, $ftp_password);
$fp = fopen($PATH."".$file_name, 'r');
// eg. $fp = fopen("http://www.yourwebsite.com/".$file_name, 'r');
//turn off passive mode transfers
ftp_pasv ($conn_id, false);
//now upload $file_name
ftp_fput($conn_id, $file_name, $fp, FTP_ASCII));
?>

m_tt

I already saw that code... i'm not sure whats missing in my PHP package but ftp_connect returns a fatal error (undefined function).

Anyone else?

There has to be an easy solution.... please help

Thanks,
Matt

webdes03

I think your best method would be to figure out the FTP problem... if not, use something like HandyBackup that will back up network sources (I think it only exists for linux though)... then you could set it up to automatically syncronize the file on all machines. I use it to sync everything on my server, with my school's server, and to sync my computers with my server... just a thought you might consider... using software instead of a PHP script.

HandyBackup is fiarly inexpensive, there's a trial out there if you want to give it a whirl... it will backup FTP sources or LAN/WAN sources. You can sync or copy in both directions on a schedual.

m_tt

To anyone that may have the same problem, I ended up using an apache program called SCP which allows me to connect to the other 2 servers.

What I did was setup a script to run the exec() function and set that script up on a cron.

Example:
exec("/usr/bin/scp /usr/home/path/to/file.txt @server02:/usr/home/path/to/file.txt 2>&1", $output);

Then do a checksum in the same script

Works PERFECT! I'm not sure why the ftp_* functions do not work for me, I have never had a need for them before.