Some general stuff about how we are set up then my questions.
Our organisation has a web site based around mcms 2002. We use scripts
developed by a third party, to ex****t content from our authoring server,
ftp
the sdo to the live server (hosted externally) and im****t the sdo on the
live
server. These three scripts are executed using Windows scheduled tasks, 3
times a day.
Users requested that we develop functionality, which would permit them to
do
immediate uploads, for example, a facility like a school is shut owing to
severe weather.
Thanks
David
Nestle idea was to grant users access to site manager, let them ex****t the
page and then use a web application to ftp it to the live server. We
could
then develop a Windows service to monitor a folder on the live web server
for
sdo files, which would execute the vbs im****t script.
Basically had to abandon this idea, not all the users would be site
manager
administrators and therefore have access to the ex****t option. Also, our
infrastructure security would not permit users access to site manager from
home.
I then came up with the idea of building a web page that simply ran the
existing ex****t and upload scripts (I'm aware that this would upload ALL
changed content and not just the desired page).
It works on my PC but not the users. Yes it's security. The users have
been given a drive mapping to where the sdo files are created but
basically
the ftp fails unless the users are given administrator rights (which won't
happen). I've tried writing code to trigger the scheduled jobs, run the
scripts directly-keep hitting security problems.
Now I'm pretty confident that the users needing administrator rights to
ftp
the file (or a copy of the file), is explained by the following posting:-
http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner/archive/2006/09/11/SiteDeploymentFromWebApplication.aspx
Any advice? Been working on this for around 6 weeks and it has a high
priority within the organisation.
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