A Better Way To Host The Update List

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    Valued Member Acardia is offline
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    A Better Way To Host The Update List

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

    HFS ~ HTTP File Server


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    Deny everything. Tsukasa is offline
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    Re: A Better Way To Host The Update List

    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.
    Last edited by Tsukasa; 28-02-11 at 03:28 PM.

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    Creator of Code chreadie is offline
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    Re: A Better Way To Host The Update List

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

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    Re: A Better Way To Host The Update List

    Quote Originally Posted by Tsukasa View Post
    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 ...?
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    Deny everything. Tsukasa is offline
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    Re: A Better Way To Host The Update List

    Quote Originally Posted by fasa2008 View Post
    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. :)
    Last edited by Tsukasa; 28-02-11 at 04:50 PM.

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    Creator of Code chreadie is offline
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    Re: A Better Way To Host The Update List

    And to get iis on win 2k3 Go to add/remove programs and select add Windows components
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    Re: A Better Way To Host The Update List

    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

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    Re: A Better Way To Host The Update List

    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.



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