| Automatically Upload File to a Secure Server - CRON Job
HTTPS or FTPS, Curl, PHP, CRON |
jpmadmin
msg:4428606 | 2:12 pm on Mar 13, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Hi,
I need to:
1) Setup a CRON Job - calls a PHP / Curl script
2) Connect to a Remote Server via HTTPS
3) Upload a File (there is No form)
How can this be done -- using CRON, PHP, and Curl ?
I could also use FTPS if that is better.
Cheers
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lostdreamer
msg:4428624 | 3:12 pm on Mar 13, 2012 (gmt 0) |
All of the above.
If there is a script on the other webserver which accepts a file upload, you can POST a file to it using curl
$ch = curl_init();
$fields = "img=@/path/to/image.jpg"
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $fields);
$result = curl_exec( $ch );
curl_close ($ch);
This will upload a file to the website using the variable name $_FILES['img']
Don't forget you need SSL installed as well as cURL.
If you have this script, you can call it from a cronjob like you suggested.
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jpmadmin
msg:4428652 | 4:03 pm on Mar 13, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Hi lostdreamer,
Thanks for your reply.
I'm not sure if there is a script on the secure server - I'm checking now.
How would I call the secure URL ? Would $url have the https://123.123.123.123 address ?
How does the line: $fields = "img=@/path/to/image.jpg" work ? (unsure of @)
Thanks again.
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incrediBILL
msg:4428726 | 6:33 pm on Mar 13, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Upload from WHERE?
Is this a server to server thing or a desktop computer to server thing?
If it's just a desktop thing, programs like CuteFTP will do it all, no cron, scripts, nada.
If it's server to server, why mess with PHP? A simple cron to execute a one-line CURL command from a script is simpler to implement than messing with CURL in PHP.
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jpmadmin
msg:4428859 | 12:38 am on Mar 14, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Thanks incrediBill !
It's a Server A to Server B transfer @ 4:00 PM Monday - Friday (CRON).
And, I have to process daily information in a MySQL Database, plus the Filenames have a Date/Time stamp to uniquely identify them.
Can I send a unique Filename using a CURL command ?
Thanks for the help.
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incrediBILL
msg:4428902 | 4:40 am on Mar 14, 2012 (gmt 0) |
OK, now that I know it's a report and a transfer, PHP seems perfectly suited for the task.
To answer your question, cURL can send a unique filename, but you need to create the unique file name you pass to cURL.
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jpmadmin
msg:4429021 | 1:20 pm on Mar 14, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Got it -- thanks !
As another option, I did find info on installing SSH2 Extension for PHP on CentOS 5 and it worked !
[blog.dynamichosting.biz...]
I'll be using PHP's ssh2 commands unless I hit a brick wall and need to re-visit CURL.
Thanks again for your help.
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