uploading files without using FTP

[martincrumlish]

Hi,

I have 8 unix webservers that are duplicates of each other (used for load balancing on a web site)

For security reasons, these servers don't have FTP access. Any file uploading has to be done with putty or winSCP. There is a process that runs every 15 minutes to replicate any recent files that were uploaded to the main webserver and then it copies these to the other 7 servers.

What I want to do is to write a script that will provide a web interface and will upload a file to the same locations on all 8 servers.

I could do this if it was a standard FTP connection but I am not sure how to set it up for these servers, I think it may be something to do with sockets?

Any help or ideas are appreciated

Thanks.

[Shrike]

If each server is mounted by the main one perhaps you could use HTTP to upload the file and then just copy it to the relevant shares with copy() or move_uploaded_file()?

[martincrumlish]

thanks for the reply.

I just noticed I left out a very important point.....the 8 servers don't have PHP installed. I will have the PHP script on an internal server we use and connect via fsockopen or whatever to the other servers in turn.