Hey everyone,
Interesting question here. I run a small network for web hosting. I have ISA at the perimeter, and a web server, mail server, and database server inside the network. My question is about the web server, Windows Server 2008 running IIS 7.
I have a few clients/friends who would like the ability to schedule scripts to run for websites they’re working on. This is very easy to do if the client uses a UNIX based web server with an SSH connection and creates a cron job using crontab, but how do I do this with someone only having FTP access to their web root on the server?
Yes, I can schedule the task for them using Scheduled Tasks. But there has to be a better way. I don’t have time at the moment to rebuild my network and use UNIX/Linux hosts, and as much as I wouldn’t mind creating tasks for my users/friends, they’d love the ability to schedule a “cron job” themselves on my web server.
I tried Googling but all I could find were articles repeatedly saying “oh that’s easy you just have to use Scheduled Tasks!”. That’s great, for me. But my users only have FTP access, not administrative RDP access to the box.
Thanks in advance for any advice!