Mirroring LAMP Website
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Introduction
Cheap web hosting companies do not provide
- SSL support (https),
- Digest authentication (a poor-man's alternative to true SSL to introduce a modicum of security.)
- Admin access to MySQL database servers.
Running a web-based content creation system like a wiki off such a platform exposes your passwords being transmitted in clear-text each time you login to the site to change something.
The solution I wanted to to implement is to run the `editable' version of the web site in a different server (my home server, that is not 24h up and running) then to `mirror' the changes to a `read-only' server on my hosting site. After several false-stats, I was successfully in doing this. Following is the story.
