Fw: Quick question

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From: "Julien Bonastre"
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Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 10:25 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Quick question


> Got a quick fix,
>
> If you are planning on doing this upload more often than once a decade I
> suggest:
>
> a) move closer to your host you are uploading to, I mean close enough to
> run a fibre optic strand to it.
> b) reconsider your data storage and how much or what you need to be on the
> host
> c) in parallel with response (a), move the host to where you are, host
> from business front or home whichever applies, find suitable ISP that will
> accomodate these needs, that way minimal transfer resources are required
> over a LAN..
>
>
>
> ---oOo--- Allowing users to execute CGI scripts in any directory should
> only be considered if: ... a.. You have no users, and nobody ever visits
> your server. ... Extracted Quote: Security Tips - Apache HTTP
> Server ---oOo--- ------oOo---------------oOo------ Julien Bonastre
> [The_RadiX] The-Spectrum Network CEO ABN: 64 235 749 494
> julien@the-spectrum.org
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Amol Hatwar"
> To: "Chris Payne" ;
> Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 9:27 AM
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Quick question
>
>
>> ** Comments Inline **
>>
>> *chop*
>>> Basically I need to be able to upload 1gig files via FTP which is based
>>> on
>>
>> Whoa! Did I read ONE GIG? By FTP I understand *the* File Transfer
>> Protocol. How is it based on PHP?
>>
>>> PHP, when the file uploads successfully it then adds the info to a mysql
>>> database so that the administration program can control the programs
>>> uploaded, but I can't upload any large files only small ones.
>>
>> On FTP? Or from a PHP generated Web page?
>>
>>> Any help would REALLY be appreciated as this is quite urgent and I've
>>> searched the net for examples but couldn't find what I needed.
>>
>> For this answer I am assuming that you want to stick One Gig-o-files
>> using a PHP script. Let me know if this isn't the case. There are two
>> things to consider here:
>> 1. The PHP script time-out (usually 30 secs) and the max-upload (2 MB)
>> 2. The Apache Process recycle-time (look for settings in httpd.conf)
>>
>> You can try playing around with these values. However, it is not good
>> for your scripts,Apache and PHP to stay in memory for such a long time
>> (till your huge file gets uploaded). They simply aren't designed to do
>> that. They are designed to just serve the requested page and shut up.
>>
>> I'd suggest you use some different mechanism like SCP (if you don't want
>> to touch FTP) or rsync over SSH if you'd like the thing run unattended.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> ah
>>
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