Creating a file on another server using PHP file functionality

Question

I have a script on my one server and I want that script to create a file on another server of mine using PHP, NOT VIA FTP?

Answer 1

There are many ways to do this. I'd pick the first one myself because it's easiest to set up:

• If you have PHP+Apache on another server, just call some script on the other server using file_get_contents with http URL as filename or use cURL if you need to POST file contents as well.
• If the servers are in same network (LAN, VPN) you can use Windows shares/Samba or NFS to mount a remote directory to you local filesystem and simply write to file directly using fopen/fwrite functions
• Use SSH via SCP or SFTP