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Asked: 2026-05-17T02:26:44+00:00

So, if this question has been asked before, I’m sorry. I’m not exactly sure

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So, if this question has been asked before, I’m sorry. I’m not exactly sure what to search for.

Introduction:

All the domains I maintain now are hosted on my server, so I have not ran into this problem yet.

I have created a structure, similar to WordPress, for uploading and editing images.

I regularly create changes in the functions and upload them to a single folder. When the user logs in, the contents are automatically downloaded into their folder.

What I am wanting to do:

Now, say I have a user that is not hosted on my server. I cannot use copy(), but is there a safe and secure way to echo the contents of each php file (obviously, I can echo) into another file on the users server?

For example:

Currently I can copy from jasonleodurbin.com to geodun.com (same server), but say I want to copy jasonleodurbin.com/test.php to somedomain.com/test.php.

I had some thoughts like give each user a private key and send that to a file like echo.php. echo.php will grab the contents of every file (that has been modified recently) and echo that to the screen. The requesting server would take that content and copy that into it’s respective .php file.

I assume I could send the key through GET, but since I have never dabbled into the security implications of anything (I am a hobbyist), I don’t know how secure this is.

Are there any suggestions or directions that someone could send me?

I appreciate the help!

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’m assuming this is sensitive data. If that’s the case, then I would suggest encrypting the file using PGP keys. Either way, you need a method to send the file from your server to their server. I can’t recall how I did it, but I used to send encrypted data file from our remote server to a server in house. We used PGP keys to encrypt and decrypt once it arrived in house. As for the method we used to send the file across the web, I believe we used SCP (you need shell access on the server).

    You could use FTP, but how about setting it up so that they only have access to a particular directory so they can’t touch anything else. You’ll need a script to grab the file from the FTP location and storing it in the appropriate directory per user?

    Just thought of something, store the file in a protected folder. Have the user download the file using curl. I believe you can specify username/password with curl.

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