A friend of my father’s has offered to pay me if I can get a website running for him where people can register an account, upload a hi-res picture, and have an e-mail sent to him informing him of the upload so he can print it.
His business is printing photographs. he wants to run the website, or at least the file hosting part of it, off a windows 2003 server that he already has up and running, and as far as I know, it would be the only thing running on it.
I have come to you to ask for help and guidance, and particularly seek the opinion of Hubi, who I know is experienced in this matter, but if anyone else has any suggestions as regards software and that kind of stuff, or even better, specific experience in the matter, please, go ahead.
Thanks in advance, wheybags.
In order to host anything on the windows box you need to get some sort of web interface running; WAMP will provide the necessary services for webhosting (Apache, MySQL, PHP).
I couldn’t well advise you on setting up the actual website; you’d need to write some sort of web application to store uploads in the database and notify your client when a picture gets ‘posted’…you’d be doing this with PHP/MySQL but I couldn’t tell you where to start.
I think he’s OK with that, what he needs is the actual uploading part.
So are you able to program it, you just cant figure out how to do the uploading? Or do you have no idea where to start?
Also, I’m not impressed with my discovery in your signature.
I just have no idea where to start. And I was wondering when someone would find him.
Well, the basics of file upload can be found here, take a bit of a look around for ways to restrict the types of files that can be uploaded.
Feel free to PM me if you need halp.
Thanks. And I’m pretty sure I will PM you.
Depending on which programming environment you feel safer in (C#/PHP) you could look at this.
https://tftpserver.codeplex.com/
However, I admit PHP could end up simpler.