Anybody have any recommendations for a good web-based, free file manager? That's pretty much the bottom line, but here's the full story.
I need to put on our office's website a directory structure of documents -- PDFs, whatever -- for the public to browse and download at will. No problem so far. But I also want a set of people to be able to add, overwrite, remove files and directories. That should also be easy. What's wrong with sFTP, for example? Nothing, except that my users are in a totalitarian Windows environment and have no client software and are not permitted to install anything. OK, what's wrong with webFTP or similar? Then all they need is a web browser. True, but we are on a shared hosting service, and I can make another user account for everyone to share, and use WebFTP, but that user's home directory is separate and distinct from my own, beneath which our web doc root resides, and to which that user does not have access. If I had the privileges, I could figure something out with symlinks, permissions, ACLs perhaps -- but I do not, again because it's shared hosting. I thought, well suppose we use something like Amazon s3 and rig up a way to mount the remote folder to a point under our web doc root? Then they could use the s3 web interface to upload etc and there you go. Problem there is, that additional expense, though small, would have to come out of my pocket and I already happen to be bearing the cost of this website already, which is why it's on a dirt-cheap hosting plan. Then I learned that Dreamhost (our provider) now lets you set a CNAME to alias a bucket in its DreamObjects (competitor to s3) to a subdomain of your Dreamhost site. Cool! But what you get, when you access public-stuff.example.org, is an XML file listing the contents of the bucket. You have to provide your own interface. Fair enough, but... you know how it is when something seems like it's getting outlandishly complicated. You start suspecting you're on the wrong track. At last I think, dude, all you need is a good free web-based file manager, no more or less. Anybody have any recommendations by way of that, or anything other suggestions? -- David Mintz http://davidmintz.org/ Human needs before private profit: http://socialequality.com/
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