On 15 Aug 2008, at 15:41, Dan Shirah wrote:
Your best bet would be to run a periodic sync to copy the files
across from the other server but it would have to run outside the
IIS process. There are plenty of solutions around for doing this and
they have nothing to do with PHP. You can then refer to the local
copy of the file from PHP and it will then work.
This isn't very feasible because the server that contains the
documents contains almost 1 terabyte worth of documents and
continues to grow in size. No way I would want to mirror that amount
of information just to hude the file path.
Instead of just making and executing a batch file, maybe there is a
way for PHP to call a scheduled task? Since within a scheduled task
you specify what username/password is used to execute it I may be
able to get it to work?
A scheduled task is messy. IIWY I'd use FTP to pull the file over, but
that's still pretty messy.
If this is an Intranet then the risks involved in giving that user
access to the network is minimal and probably would be the best
solution. Alternatively you could set up an HTTP server on the
document server and proxy the documents through the IIS server
(readfile should be happy to take an HTTP URL unless you've disabled
it in php.ini, and the end user will never see the actual URL).
-Stut
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