By bestknight on

I was thinking about how to best approach the setting up of a website that is going to be used by a software representative for serving updates to its clients. The updates could be as large as around 100MB each, to be downloaded and applied by the clients.

Can Drupal be used in this way for serving large files as a substitute to an FTP server?

Anyone had experience of a similar setup and would like tro share possible problems or just thoughts? Any special considerations for such a setup?

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cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

Downloading is not a problem at all. You attach it or you just link it -- they download it.

Uploading from inside Drupal (or from anything PHP) is a problem, with the combined limitations of upload_max_filesize, post max_size, memory_limit and timeouts (http://php.net/ini.core). FTP uploading is the simplest option, but of course it is out of Drupal's realm.

Here is a related discussion of possible solutions http://drupal.org/node/129138

mrmanishs2’s picture

mrmanishs2 commented

So you don't have to set one up, there's a site File Apartment (http://www.fileapartment.com) that does what you're looking to do. It's easy to use and supports up to 1 GB, there's even a free option.