Sending Data to 2 web servers

mickopla · **Posted:** Fri Jan 27, 2012 6:31 am

This is probably a crazy question but would it be possible to send data from Cumulus to 2 different web servers and run 2 php websites while using the Saratoga Templates?? eg server A is hosting waterfordcityweather.com while server B hosts waterfordweather.com

Cheers

Mike

steve · **Posted:** Fri Jan 27, 2012 9:03 am

Cumulus only supports uploading web pages to one ftp server. But you could use a 'batch' file run as an external command to ftp the files to another server, as described here: http://wiki.sandaysoft.com/a/SFTP. WinSCP does 'normal' FTP as well as SFTP.

mickopla · **Posted:** Fri Jan 27, 2012 12:53 pm

steve wrote:

Cumulus only supports uploading web pages to one ftp server. But you could use a 'batch' file run as an external command to ftp the files to another server, as described here: http://wiki.sandaysoft.com/a/SFTP. WinSCP does 'normal' FTP as well as SFTP.

Thanks Steve

Will look into that.

Mike

beteljuice · **Posted:** Fri Jan 27, 2012 1:23 pm

You should be able to ftp to your 'prime' site and the 'source' the wxCUdata for the 'secondary' from the 'prime'.

I think ......

mickopla · **Posted:** Fri Jan 27, 2012 2:51 pm

beteljuice wrote:

You should be able to ftp to your 'prime' site and the 'source' the wxCUdata for the 'secondary' from the 'prime'.

I think ......

Would i use the software mentioned by Steve to do this or do you know of another method?

Edit: Also which files would i need to use to get the Saratoga Scripts to work.

gemini06720 · **Posted:** Fri Jan 27, 2012 7:05 pm

Are the two site on different hosting servers or are they both on the same hosting server but under different directories or sub-directories?

mickopla · **Posted:** Sat Jan 28, 2012 12:59 am

mickopla wrote:

beteljuice wrote:

You should be able to ftp to your 'prime' site and the 'source' the wxCUdata for the 'secondary' from the 'prime'.

I think ......

Would i use the software mentioned by Steve to do this or do you know of another method?

Edit: Also which files would i need to use to get the Saratoga Scripts to work.

The 2 sites are on different servers.

beteljuice · **Posted:** Sat Jan 28, 2012 2:05 am

As well as the main data file for the 'base' pages, there are other reports / files which may be required for extended information. Whilst do-able by scripting it would beter to find a dual ftp solution.

The example you quote suggests the same (mirrored) site ?

mickopla · **Posted:** Sat Jan 28, 2012 2:38 am

beteljuice wrote:

As well as the main data file for the 'base' pages, there are other reports / files which may be required for extended information. Whilst do-able by scripting it would beter to find a dual ftp solution.

The example you quote suggests the same (mirrored) site ?

Yes basically the address for my php site now is www.waterfordcityweather.com/index.php which is long so i decided to purchase www.waterfordweather.com which is shorter and might get improved search results in google. I want to keep the non php website www.waterfordcityweather.com as is because its a more basic site and the base template is from Cumulus but i have modified the page.

gwheelo · **Posted:** Mon Jan 30, 2012 4:10 am

If you wish identical content on the two sites - ftp to one site (A) and then on the alternate site (B) do a redirect to the first site. No one will ever notice!

On site B use an html page named index.htm containing:

<body>
<script>
location = "http://www.site A";
</script>
</body>

That is all you need.
George Wheelock

mickopla · **Posted:** Tue Jan 31, 2012 1:01 am

gwheelo wrote:

If you wish identical content on the two sites - ftp to one site (A) and then on the alternate site (B) do a redirect to the first site. No one will ever notice!

On site B use an html page named index.htm containing:

<body>
<script>
location = "http://www.site A";
</script>
</body>

That is all you need.
George Wheelock

Thanks George
Sounds simple enough to do. Will give it a try later.

Edit: That did the trick. Anyone now who goes to www.watefordweather.com gets the mirrored website

mcrossley · **Posted:** Tue Jan 31, 2012 8:56 am

I may be missing something, but couldn't you just alter your DNS entries so that both domain names point to the same server?

gemini06720 · **Posted:** Tue Jan 31, 2012 8:58 am

mcrossley wrote:

I may be missing something, but couldn't you just alter your DNS entries so that both domain names point to the same server?

Indeed, my thoughts exactly - I have been doing that with about a dozen of registered domain names...

TNETWeather · **Posted:** Tue Jan 31, 2012 4:43 pm

mcrossley wrote:

I may be missing something, but couldn't you just alter your DNS entries so that both domain names point to the same server?

If they are on different hosts, that may not be possible. Most Registrar DNS setups allow you to do this at the DNS level with forwarding there though.

mickopla · **Posted:** Wed Feb 01, 2012 6:02 am

mcrossley wrote:

I may be missing something, but couldn't you just alter your DNS entries so that both domain names point to the same server?

Just like TNET weather said would this be possible if dealing with two separate hosts??? If so how would i do this?

Mick

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