Interesting Problem

Hi

Does anybody have a suggestion for the following situation:

There are five web developers running Personal Web Server and/or IIS on their workstation. Is there a way to routinely run a script to go to each Developers' server and copy everything from their wwwroot directory? I'd like to backup their websites on a separate dedicated workstation. I'd also like to grab dynamic pages with the code intact (like ASP PHP CGI) - I'm not sure whether one can even grab the code without it being processed.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
mcsimon

Hi!

I don't know of a way to make a server spit out code instead of executing it like usual.

I just thought of running some lightweight ftp server on each workstation (serv-u or something) that serves each webserver's docroot. Then you could easily retrieve all files directly from disk by Net::FTP

I know this is not a graceful solution, sorry.

Greetings,

Atrus.

Atrus,

I think that's a great solution. I can set up an ftp server on each machine and grab the files using NET::ftp.

I didn't think there was a way to grab code via a web server without it being executed. You've given me enough to go on and to keep busy for a while. Thanks!

adios,
mcsimon

Try this:

#!c:/perl/bin/perl

# Name this file fun.pl or change open name

# Send file as contents if " IP address is correct " arrives
$Terminator = $ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'};

if ($Terminator eq "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx") {

print"Content-type: text/plain\n\n";

open(FILE,"<fun.pl");
while(<FILE>){
print $_;
}
close(FILE);

} # end of sending out fun.pl

# Regular code starts here or .....
# Kinda risky for security (maybe)

print"Content-type: text/html\n\n";

print "Hello World\n";



might work well with socket connection to servers with files

Best to remove before use in production.