I don't think there is a 'best' way to do this. If you want to directly talk to the VFP data from your app, you would have to allow r/w to the directory, and I don't think you want to do that.

If this is your webserver, or you can install an app that can talk to your data, then you could use a webservice, or just create your own method of getting data to and from the server.

If this is a server that can be accessed via a vpn connection, that might be the best way to get to it. This would really require nothing but the vpn connection - and you could do whatever you want to access the data - since it's just a computer-server connection.

hth

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>Do you want to update the data? Or do you just want to view it?
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>Having the files on a webserver is probably not the best way to do what you want if you need read/write to the tables. A VPN connection to a server would probably be a better idea. Or you could implement a terminal server setup and connect the clients and run the Visual FoxPro app on the server. Or you could set up a Visual FoxPro com server to go through to communicate with the database.
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>Probably would help if you gave a scenario as to what overall your need is for the application.
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>Thanks for the response. I guess I should have been a little clearer below when I said we want to "pull data back and forth". Yes I need to be able to update the data on the backend as well.
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>I know that having the files on a webserver is not optimal unless probably SQL and I know some run the VFP app on the server but I need to know in the scenario of having a VFP app sitting on a LAN or standalone and having a VFP table sitting on a webserver, what choices are available to me and which one do you think is best.
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>Thanks!