HI

Here is the situation:

I have drupal site installed on one server and i do upload files on another server.

I would like to have some interface which would allow me to provide http URL of files uploaded on another server and when user clicks on download button on drupal site then file gets downloaded from remote server. Some redirection to remote URL is needed.

Please any ideas and thoughts would be very helpful.

Thanks. Best regards..

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quicksketch
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Status: Active » Fixed

This can be done with http://drupal.org/project/filefield_sources. Enable that module and then configure your field to enable the "Remote URL" source option.

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Rameez commented
Status: Fixed » Active

Thanks for your response..
But that will transfer remote file to local server... as my need is to keep files at remote server and just linking them from local server as files..
Please more thoughts..

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quicksketch
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my need is to keep files at remote server and just linking them from local server as files..

This is not possible with FileField, which works by storing a files "File ID" (FID). In Drupal 6 the files table is only possible to hold local file system files. The only way to do something similar to what you're describing is to simply use a Link field to store the URL.

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Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)
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wheck commented

Hi! how do you upload files to a remote server? did you develope a little module to do so yourself? or did you find a way using something provided by drupal community? thanks in advance.