On 8/4/2010 8:08 PM, Jobst Schmalenbach 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.
Look for something called fugu for the Mac.
> 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?
Others have suggested enabling indexes in apache which will work if all
you have to do is read and apache has file system permissions. I
haven't used it for a while, but I thought webmin had a decent file
manager component and you might find some of the other modules useful too.
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Les Mikesell
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