Re: PHP script to accept PUT from curl on Apache

Hi:

I'm not an expert by any means, but are you trying to ftp a file to a 
site with a curl?

tedd


>I hate to ask this basic question, but scouring the net and mailing list
>isn't turning up what I need.  Basically, how do I use the curl command line
>to PUT a file to a PHP script in Apache?  I've been able to get so far that
>the PHP script creates an empty file with the correct name, but I'm stumped
>how to get the file content.  I can't tell if the problem is in my PHP
>script (probable), in my use of curl (probable), or in curl itself (highly
>improbable).  Can you offer any tips on what I'm doing wrong?
>
>Here's what I've done so far:
>
>1) Configure Apache to accept a PUT command (Apache/2.0.54):
>
>       Alias /putstuff /htdocs/putstuff
>       <Directory /htdocs/putstuff>
>         Options ExecCGI
>               AllowOverride All
>         Order allow,deny
>               Allow from all
>         Script PUT /put.php
>       </Directory>
>
>2) Create 'put.php' script (PHP/4.4.2):
>
>       <?php
>       $totalWritten = 0;
>       $inFP  = @fopen( "php://stdin", "rb" );
>       $outFP = @fopen( basename( $REQUEST_URI ), "wb" );
>       while( $data = fread( $inFP, 1024 ) )
>       {
>               fwrite( $outFP, $data );
>               $totalWritten += strlen( $data );
>       }
>       fclose($inFP);
>       fclose($outFP);
>
>       if( $totalWritten ) header( "HTTP/1.0 200 Success" );
>       else                header( "HTTP/1.0 404 Failed" );
>       ?>
>
>3) Upload file from command line (Win32, no-SSL binary, 7.15.1)
>
>       C:\>dir test
>        Volume in drive C is DriveC
>        Volume Serial Number is F0ED-F121
>
>        Directory of C:\
>
>       03/26/2006  02:15 AM               779 test
>                      1 File(s)            779 bytes
>                      0 Dir(s)     489,162,752 bytes free
>
>       C:\>curl -i -T test http://be1.redswoosh.net/metadata/
>       HTTP/1.1 100 Continue
>
>       HTTP/1.1 404 Failed
>       Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 01:34:13 GMT
>       Server: Apache
>       X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.2
>       Content-Length: 0
>       Content-Type: text/html
>
>
>       C:\>
>
>4) Check to see if the file arrived:
>
>       [root@myserver]# ls -latr
>       total 16
>       drwxr-xr-x   18 admin    admin        4096 Mar 26 15:09 ..
>       -rw-r--r--    1 admin    admin          13 Mar 26 15:23 index.html
>       -rw-r--r--    1 admin    admin         926 Mar 26 16:35 put.php
>       -rw-r--r--    1 apache   apache          0 Mar 26 17:15 test
>       drwxrwxrwx    2 admin    admin        4096 Mar 26 17:15 .
>       [root@myserver]#
>
>
>As you can see from this command sequence, it succeeds in:
>
>       a) Accepting the PUT request
>       b) Directing to the PHP script
>       c) Getting the right filename
>       d) Opening an output file
>
>(Also, though I've removed the error checking in the example above, it's
>able to open the 'stdin' handle without trouble.)
>
>But I'm stumped as to why it won't write the file content itself.  Any
>advice?  Thanks!
>
>-david
>
>
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