We have two separate web applications for a site: One for the site itself, and one for the cms/administration side. I’m not sure why the original developer designed it this way, but whatever.
I am tasked with adding some functionality to the administration side that uploads files. These files then need to exist within the folder structure of the actual site. I was thinking I might have to write a web service that sits on the actual site that accepts the file bytes and file name from a call within the administration site, and creates the file in the correct folder, but I was wondering if anyone had any ideas about a cleaner way to accomplish the same thing.
In general, how would you tackle a scenario where you upload a file on one site, and send it to the directory structure in another?
Thanks in advance!
The solution I ended up going with is to store the full file path to the other site in the web.config. It’s not the most elegant solution, but it works and I’m mildly happy with it since it is easily maintainable across dev/staging/production.