Well, I spent the most part of yesterday fighting with the FTP problem I mentioned in yesterdays blog posting. After thousands of tests, numerous modifications, and copious amounts of hair tugging, I decided to contact my hosting provider. I wanted to see if they offered any ASP scripts that would aid FTP file manipulation. After explaining my dilemma, the support assistant I was chatting with said this and I quote:
I regret to inform you, but it is impossible to use such ways of transferring due to shared hosting and security reasons.
So what does this mean exactly? Well, I can't use FTP, period, on the servers of my hosting provider. My whole idea has gone out the window. I am left, scratching my head, nursing my dented self-confidence and wondering how I am going to crack this nut.
I have though, been wondering if it is possible to have a clients website in a directory on the Glacialis server and have their domain name point to that directory. I am unsure if that is entirely possible. I will look into it today and get back to you tomorrow. If it is possible however, I can do away with the transferring of files and keep everything local, on the servers of Glacialis, increasing speed, improving stability, boosting security and avoiding additional complexity.
Unfortunately, I will have to scrap the server module I made a couple of days ago, as it is now irrelevant, and no longer required.
I am slowly dusting myself off, and getting back to my feet.. Things will work out, and this will still be the best system I have ever made.
Development saga continues tomorrow...
Paul Jacobs
Hi Paul,
ReplyDeleteBy no means am I versed in ASP, AJAX, etc., but is it that the provider does not allow FTP at all for the reason's stated or just based on the the design you've implemented.
Understandably you cannot go into detail, but I did minor search and perused several links and found one that might be of interest even though the server module has been shelved...
http://www.aspfree.com/c/a/ASP/FTP-with-ASP/
However, you may have already done this, but thought i'd chime in cuz I found the problem interesting.
best regards,
neil stephenson
Hi Neil,
ReplyDeleteThank you for your feedback, it is greatly appreciated. My hosting server does not allow any type of FTP movements within it shared hosting services for security reasons. The FTP page you found, was the page I used to help me write my tests, and consequently find the problem with my hosting.
Best Regards,
Paul Jacobs