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mynd

Hello Everyone,

I am in a situation where i do work with php on a constant basis to some degree. However, there comes a time when all of us need a little guidance. Here is the situtation and I appreciate everyone's advice or suggestions.

Windows 2003 Enterprise server, IIS 6, PHP 5.x and MYSql 4.11. I want to add an upload script in php to the server. One that does not require MYSql, nor java or flash. Just simple php. It needs to be password protected and allow the ability to upload files about 150MB in size. This will be used by maybe two people so it will only be 1 file every so often or some smaller files more often.

a. I need to find a script that enables me to password protect the upload feature.
b. It needs to only upload one file at a time and maybe list the files in that folder
c. I need to know what settings I need to change in the php.ini for the upload script to work with files that size. I assume I need to change max_upload to 500MB.
d. I need to know what other settings in the php.ini need to change as well, and I need suggestion on what the changes should be based on a server that runs on a 10mb/768k bandwidth
e. I know the time limit should be changed for the script to run and so forth, but I need someone to basically write me back saying

change this to this and this to this, change this to this based on the bandwidth and since you have 1.2GB of ram and unlimited space do this..

I really hope someone here can answer all those questions and that others will add their experience / expertise to the mix.

I appreciate all your time and anyone effort on helping me with this.

Kind regards,
Mynd

http://www.myndpollution.com

bretticus

Why waste ASP.NET since you already paid for the server? You can use OBDC for MySQL access. Or better yet, just use Microsoft SQL Server 2005 express which is free and you are only going to have a couple users (in the past the free versions of SQL server only supported 10 concurrent connections. Not a problem in your case and significantly faster than MySQL via OBDC.) I say this because last I looked, PHP did not recommend deploying PHP on Windows for a production server. However, if you want to avoid the learning curve ( I figure if you've got Microsoft, you might as well use it,) here are some answers to your questions:

a. I need to find a script that enables me to password protect the upload feature.

There are many articles discribing how to force browser authtication via HTTP AUTH or using PHP sessions. In other words, you can simply password protect the Web page. Google and the PHP Manual are your friends.

b. It needs to only upload one file at a time and maybe list the files in that folder

What folder? The folder just uploaded too? Again the PHP Manual has code examples on handling file uploads. readdir has a code example to list the folders in a given directory.

c. I need to know what settings I need to change in the php.ini for the upload script to work with files that size. I assume I need to change max_upload to 500MB.

big files! But yes, that will limit it. You may need to change the memory limit as well. I would experiment with it until you fine tune it.

d. I need to know what other settings in the php.ini need to change as well, and I need suggestion on what the changes should be based on a server that runs on a 10mb/768k bandwidth

huh? asynchronous broadband? you have a 768k upload pipe? Good luck on those 500 MB uploads, plan on setting the script timeout very high.

e. I know the time limit should be changed for the script to run and so forth, but I need someone to basically write me back saying...

I'm afraid I've never tried to do what your doing with the servers and pipe. Here are more links

PHP Manual on handling uploads

PHP Manual on php.ini directives