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Asked: 2012-04-27 06:39:44 +0800 CST

on the fly FTP mirror using Apache/Php

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I got data on a private FTP server I want to mirror it, but "on demand". My frontend is an Apache/PHP server...

Here's the flow :

  • Clients asks the apache server for a file
  • if file is not on hdd, download it from the ftp server. (stream it to client, while saving it to hdd)
  • send file to client (from apache)

I don't know exactly how to proceed...

Is there a way to stream a file while downloading it ?

Maybe we could do something with php/curl...

ftp php apache-2.2 mirroring

1 Answers

  1. Try LftpFS: http://lftpfs.sourceforge.net/

    It's a FUSE filesystem that relies on lftp as a backend and does exactly what you need. It requires a basic lftp script, but it's easy to write one. The official site provides sufficient info.

    You can also try and turn your Apache into a caching proxy, that would work too (and probably faster than FUSE).

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