On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 16:45 -0400, Wei, Alice J. wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a snippet of code here: > > > > shell_exec("tar cvf /var/www/html/test/$id/data.tar /var/www/html/test/$id/data"); > > > > $file1="http:/www.mysite.com/test/$id/data.tar"; > > $file2="http://www.mysite2.com/test/$id/.tar"; > > > > copy($file1,$file2); > > > > I got the following error in the access log of the server: > > > > [Wed Jul 16 15:45:57 2008] [error] PHP Warning: copy(http://www.mysite.com/test/145/data.tar) [<a href='function.copy'>function.copy</a>]: failed to open stream: HTTP wrapper does not support writeable connections. in /var/www/html/beam_calculation.php on line 20 > > > > Is there something I could do here to allow my file be "copied" to the remote server? > > Use the ftp functions. > > Thanks for the tip. I have revised my code to: > > // define some variables > $local_file = "C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/test/$id/beamdata.tar"; > $server_file = "http://192.168.10.63/test/$id/beamdata.tar"; > > // set up basic connection > $ftp_server="http://192.168.10.63"; Shouldn't that be: $ftp_server="192.168.10.63"; http:// indicates a protocol and I don't think ftp supports the protocol prefix understood by browsers. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php