hard to give any good advice, so many details will have to be found out;
the web server is probably in it's own DMZ, on a differnet subnet than the normal LAN; we had a setup like that where we added a VPN from the web server to access a different SQL server than the one that exists inside the DMZ; you could look into doing something similar.
Lowell
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