[CentOS] access to file system through web browser

[Dotan Cohen]

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 04:08, Jobst Schmalenbach <jobst at barrett.com.au> wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> I am trying to find "something" (php prefered) that I can stick onto a
> Centos apache server that would allow me to browse a selected file system
> by employees through a web-browser "explorer like" interface.
>
> I know I can do this through WinSCP (and have done so), but my problem is I have
> Linux, Windows and MAC clients and my knowledge of MAC's is rather limited.
>
> I can limit access to the (php) files to (ranges of) IP addresses, so security
> is reasonable ok and doing this through a web interface saves me time, too, as
> I only have to do this once, and security fixes is easy, too.
>
> Is there anything that would imitate a tree view like interface to
> browse a file system?
>
> Jobst
>

Here is a file manager that I started writing in PHP some years ago,
but never finished:
http://dotancohen.com/downloads/TerribleFile_0.7.php.txt

The code is probably a mess, the whole idea was to learn PHP at the
time and I've never gone back to clean it up. It's pretty usable,
though.

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