Has anyone experienced a solution to synchronize a local XOOPS site (say, on a laptop) , with the hosted one ? The only access i have to my host is ftp or http (a php script ?) : no ssh, no access to "rsync" -as far as i know - ...
I need to synchronize the "uploads" directory, and the database.

Xavier

with ftp it's easy..

use ftpsync

the database is another matter and 1 which you probably won't be able to do.. because most hosting companies only allow scripts to access their db from their own servers.. so essentially you won't get a connection..

you would have to login to cpanel and then use phpmyadmin to export the database etc and do it that way

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Hi Xavier,

Apart from not really understanding why you would have a laptop version leading; maybe for testing or conversion ?

If I would have to have a go at automating the process I would probably go for the following :

Cronjob on laptop -> create *.sql database export
ftpsync -> files + db export onto hosted server
Cronjob on server -> import *.sql database export

However if you require that the files only be moved now and then or just a couple of times doing it by hand might be easier.

greetings Highlander

Hi, and thank you all for your quick answers !

You're right, this is worth a little explanation : my brother is going to live in a boat in Guadeloupe (french caribean islands) ; he's running a (newborn) XOOPS site (www.regardnature.org : ok, the theme is .. peculiar but HE wanted this !).
Well, he'll be adding content off-line, in the local version of the site on his windows laptop, then synchronize when he has access to an internet connection : new or modified pages in the Wiwimod module (that's in the database) , with added images and attachments (that's in the "uploads" directory).

This could be a "one way" synchronization, but i'd prefer to be able to handle a two way sync to let him grab questions on the forum and answer off-line.

His host is OVH , and he's contracted a simple hosting service, with plain private FTP access.

Of course, my brother knows nothing about FTP nor technical tools and i'd like this to be a "press button feature".

Xavier