A Better Way To Host The Update List

[Acardia]

For those who dont want to setup a webserver you can use this tool to host your update list

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[Tsukasa]

Smart people will go with a real web-server like Apache or IIS for the simple reason it can be used with PHP (or virtually any other scripting language) - which enables you to use Ghost data upload and UCC as they become available.

HFS won't allow you these features. Just keep that in mind when making your choice.

 

[chreadie]

xampp is the easiet way to setup a webserver i believe. Then you can go about any php filelisting script out there.

 

[fasa2008]

Smart people will go with a real web-server like Apache or IIS for the simple reason it can be used with PHP (or virtually any other scripting language) - which enables you to use Ghost data upload and UCC as they become available.

HFS won't allow you these features. Just keep that in mind when making your choice.

Hello my friend, tsukasa. I have a question I can use the Internet Information Service to make an FTP server and use the Quick Patcher, in a computer with win2003 server ...?

 

[Tsukasa]

Hello my friend, tsukasa. I have a question I can use the Internet Information Service to make an FTP server and use the Quick Patcher, in a computer with win2003 server ...?

Absolutely, yes.

You might have to add some custom filetype definitions in IIS so the updatelist gets treated as a binary file. I didn't test that, so if you run into problems, that's probably one point to consider.

House-and-garden users (as in: People who don't run a server exclusively on a dedicated machine) should heed chreadie's advice: Get XAMPP. It's already pre-configured, runs portable from every thumbdrive and builds on the solid Apache web-server I recommend.

 

[chreadie]

And to get iis on win 2k3 Go to add/remove programs and select add Windows components

 

[hvdaedalus]

If you wish to host your full updates then be careful with the plus in iis 7! You have to enable "AllowDoubleEscape" on that Domain/Folder. To get your updatelist file running in IIS simply add the following MIME-Type for the patch_S4 folder only:

File Extension: *
Type: application/octet-stream

 

[dracconus]

Xampp, and IIS on 2003 are both severely bad ideas unless you're heavily versed in operating environment security, and how to ensure wamp, Xampp, etc. are secured. I myself, say to instal apache, and mysql as seperate services, and learn your way around them while you don't need them. it's more secure, and you have more control. Ultimately, it's better.