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matthisco
Inspiring
August 15, 2008
Question

Host my own site?

  • August 15, 2008
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Hi Guys,

I have an intranet setup which holds its own data. Ideally I would like to build my own webserver and point it to the datasource on the intranet, so there is one central source for data that supplies both the intranet and website.

However, due to company politics and finacial restraints I have doubts if I can get a webserver hosted inhouse. Therefore I will have to use a hosting company. The problem with this is I will have to upload everything twice, once to the website and once to the intranet.

Is there anyway I can get my intranet server to talk to the hosted site, so the hosted site can read the data and display it?

Thanks in advance
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    matthiscoAuthor
    Inspiring
    August 21, 2008
    Thanks for your replies.

    I would like our intranet to host the CMS that would supply the websites. It would be alot of data not just the odd bit of text here and there.

    Is WDDX still applicable?

    Thanks again

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    Anonymous
    August 20, 2008
    Yes. So long as your internal CF box is permitted to reach out to the external server at your hosting company. WDDX can go over 80 or 443 (I think 443 will work).

    If you want your SQL box to do the work, it'll need to be able to open up a SQL connection (on 1433 for MS SQL). With optional encryption.
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    matthiscoAuthor
    Inspiring
    August 20, 2008
    Thanks for your reply.

    If the intranet server can access the external site, wouldnt that make it a security risk?

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    Anonymous
    August 18, 2008
    You might want to post this question in one of the coding forums to broaden your audience.

    You can write a CF app that'll populate a remote server either using a datasource connected to that server or using WDDX.

    Or you could get your SQL server to dump that data out to a txt file and you could use CF to upload that to your remote server and then use SQL server to import that data.
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    matthiscoAuthor
    Inspiring
    August 19, 2008
    Thanks for your reply, I'll lookinto WDDX
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    matthiscoAuthor
    Inspiring
    August 19, 2008
    Just to expand a little, my IT guys dont want an inward link into the network, which is why we are hosting our website externally.

    Is data exporting still possible if our intranet server is inhouse?
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