[RESOLVED] Copying files from another site

deshg

Hey everyone,

I am currently trying to copy a load of files from an old domain onto a new domain (so as to replace the website). All images are embedded in img tags to i'm using php to extract the img src then using php copy to copy them across. This works completely sporadically, when i run the code 9 times out of 10 it runs very slowly and copies all the files at a snails pace with no error messages, but all copied files are 0kb. However every so often it runs much more quickly (the whole script runs in less than a 30 seconds) and copies all files across correctly. This is with no change in the script at all. I would be so grateful if anyone could suggest any reason this might be happening as i am so confused. The old site is up and even if it wasn't then surely i'd get an error saying it couldn't find the source file?

I cannot for the life of me work out what might be going on and i have no idea what to try as it works sometimes and not others and there are no error messages!

Any help anyone can give would be massively appreciated as i'm completely stumped!

Thanks so much,

Dave

deshg

As a followup (in case anyone is reading!) i tried to run the script again after a good few hours of not touching anything and it ran perfectly and copied all the files. When i try and do it again (changing absolutely nothing), it's back to the same old story, creating all the files as 0kb files with no errors. I can't think what but is there any setting on the current server that could be preventing the same ip address copying more than a certain amount of data (although that would make watchin videos difficult!). It doesn't work in any browser or after clearing my cache which is why i'm wondering if it's some restriction on the current server?

Any pointers anyone could give would be so much help, i'm so confused and don't know what to do other than wait another 4 hours and try again, which isn't ideal!

Thanks so much,

Dave

dagon

why not just use ftp?

deshg

Because there are huge numbers of files, all embedded within img tags that need to be extracted and then stored and associated with where they came from so by doing it this way i can do it automatically, if i did it via ftp (which i will have to if i can't get this to work), then i would have to manually copy each file, work out where it is located and then update the new database in a variety of places which will take ages!!

Thanks again for any pointers anyone could give me, i'm stumped!

Dave

dagon

if your copying files from one domain to another and the inmage urls are relative then i see no issue, if they are not relative but absolute then a find and replace across all the files should work. i guess i don't understand the issue.