Re: Uploading Database file

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"Brian Hanlin" <b.dot.hanlin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1262e028qaph77d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
|I have hoped to create someway to let this user administer the site... A
| page or two was my goal. Is there something I am missing that an "Admin
| Page" could offer that a normal upload page does not?
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| "P@tty Ayers" <patty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| news:O7z3AN8cGHA.4148@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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| > "Brian Hanlin" <b.dot.hanlin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| > news:125vv03h8kaol54@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| >> Is there a way to allow a website user to upload a database file to a
| >> website?
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| >> I know I can create pages to upload other files to the site using FP, but
| >> I have need to allow a client to copy their database file up to a website
| >> on a regular basis. Would it have to be uploaded then moved over??
| >>
| >> Right now they send me the database after any changes and I have to use
| >> Publish to get it to the live server. Please does someone know a way I
| >> can be removed from the update loop.
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| > I believe there would be security problems involved in giving users direct
| > access to a database directory.
| >
| > Have you considered creating a set of admin pages (using ASP, etc.) so
| > that they could update the database that way? That's how it's typically
| > done.
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