Question - transferring big files directly to web server - How can it be done?

Hi everyone,

I need to transfer fairly large files to my webserver - and dont want to have to download them to my PC and then upload to the webserver.

Is there an easier way to do this.

I was thinking of something in PHP that you could just enter the URL, and then it downloads that file directly onto the webserver and places it into the current directory.

anyone have any ideas on this

Thanks

 

No need to download to the local computer, that is a total waste of time.

I am not sure if you want to transfer from one of your servers or download from the net. In either case, if you have telnet/ssh/GUI access to one of the new server, it is pretty easy. Just login to the new server and download directly using ftp or http. You must be familier with ftp/wget commands. This is pretty easy, just checkup the manual.

If you dont have telnet access, you can download with php also. PHP has very simple socket functions, checkout the manual for file(), file_get_contents() and other functions.

 

It would be to download a file from the net (of which I know the URL).

I would prefer a PHP function - so will go and investigate the functions.

Thanks

 

This would be very easy to accomplish with curl in PHP.
http://www.php.net/curl

 

Try ftp to ftp transfer.

Go and grab FlashFXP and you can log in to both servers, then drag the files between them.

http://www.inicom.net/pages/en.ffxp-home.php