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Posted by Miguel Cruz on 08/03/06 17:43
crombinator@gmail.com wrote:
> So here is the not so simple situation. In our work environment one
> entity controls access to servers. In our own webspace they have setup
> a user to access a mysql database. We brought in a programmer who
> programmed a web app to access/store data in that database. So now we
> have this program able to do everything we want to display our data.
>
> The problem we are running into now is that now we want to go live the
> "entity" will not allow us to access their own database to setup the
> tables there, etc. Is there anyway that I can include the content from
> my pages hosted in our controlled space in a page in their webspace?
>
> So as an example, let's say the app is a blogging tool. I can access
> the blogging tool all I want from my home server, but evil webhost does
> not give me access to SQL databases at all. Is there anyway I can then
> run the PHP app on evil webhosts server?
I really don't understand the nature of the limitation that you're
under, or the resources you have available.
You cannot have a database at evil webhost's location? But you can run
PHP there? Can't you just have your PHP code connect to a database
elsewhere? You don't have to put "localhost" as the first argument to
mysql_connect, you know.
Otherwise, if you have another web server, you could proxy the pages
that require database access. But then why not just host everything
there?
Do you need web users to be able to modify the database or do elaborate
queries against it? Maybe you can just use wget to mirror the site as
static HTML and copy that to evil webhost's server.
There are a zillion ways to deal with this general category of problems
but without more information it's hard to figure out which one might be
the best.
miguel
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