any ideas/suggestions for client server

sunnysingh · 11 Feb 2008 at 15:03

hi all i am doing a project with a group where we have to create a client-server model. we have decided to create a website where clients are able to download movie, the front end of the website is on frontpage express.

i need any ideas or suggestions on the server part, i need to create a form on frontpage where it lists all the movies, when a client clicks on the movie they want to download, the server must lookup in somesort of database and then allow for the download 2 happen. i am unsure how this can be done.

what server should i use ?

here is the requirments of the project to do with the server:

SERVERS
At least two servers, each offering different services
example services:
• media download (download or stream) - this is what i am doing
• information services (schedules, media info, etc)
• user-user services, e.g. messaging
• security (authentication, authorisation)

Solution must provide for:
• payment of content
• management of content on servers via management interface
• user databases, including accounts (easily identifiable and usable)

i have tried now 4 over 3 week for i am unclear on what 2 do,

i not asking for some1 to do it all but i need some ideas on where i can start and how 2 make the application successfull. i am not a strong programmer and database access isnt my think

thanks

sunnysingh · 11 Feb 2008 at 19:33

yeh but where do i start ?

sunnysingh · 12 Feb 2008 at 16:23

our knowledge is very limited at the moment, we undestand the idea of a basic client/server in theory but creating a server and getting it to do things is well near impossble 4 us, i have researched but i still finding it difficult. our
lecturer is saying use microsoft iis is that any good ?

sunnysingh · 12 Feb 2008 at 17:04

i doing a degree in computer networks and security, the module is called
client server intergration,

sunnysingh · 12 Feb 2008 at 17:21

only basic visual basic.net
i just not a good programmer

sunnysingh · 12 Feb 2008 at 19:47

LazyManc said:
How long have you got? That's a pretty weighty set of requirements. Are you supposed to be building this from scratch or can you use off-the-shelf applications?

The brief is pretty ambiguous, are you sure they want a website? To me it sounds more like 1 person writes a server application and the other writes a client to connect to it.

yeh as a group we decided to create a website where clients are able to download movies, the deadlines on the 3rd march where we will have to submit a c.d of the application and also a presentation in front of the lecturer
showing evience of how the client and server work together for the application to work.

i have spoken to another lecturer who says that there is already code on certain websites that we can take and use but i cannot find it, the client side of the website is already done and the rest of the group is waitin for my part,

i really am stuck on what to do and where 2 start
any advice will be welcome
thanks