[Server-devel] web file manager

[David Van Assche]

Might be worth taking a look at ifolder... http://www.ifolder.com/ifolder
Used to be an old netware project which novell has revived and thrown
into opensource domain... totally cross platform too...

kind regards,
David Van Assche

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Rodolfo D. Arce
S.<rodolfoarce at eyuhoo.com> wrote:
> Hello:
>
> Just wanted to let you know that we are using a php file manager to
> upload files to the schoolserver and later shared through the apache
> web server.. we're using XS 0.5.2
>
> The project is called phpajaxfilemanager, and is open source, we
> placed in the /library/uploads directory in the schoolserver, don't
> forget to change permissions so apache can access them
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/pafm/
>
> We create to aliases in the webserver.. using a config file like
> this.. we changed values for the php.ini file from this configuration,
> and applied only to the alias, so no other aplications (like moodle)
> would be affected by this changes
>
> # /etc/httpd/conf.d/002-uploader.conf
> Alias /upload /library/uploads
> <Directory /library/uploads>
>  AllowOverride All
>  php_value upload_max_filesize 10000000
>  php_value post_max_size 10000000
>  Order allow,deny
>  Allow from all
> </Directory>
>
> Alias /files /library/uploads/files
> <Directory /library/uploads/files>
>  Options Indexes
>  Order allow,deny
>  Allow from all
> </Directory>
>
> With this two aliases.. the teachers can use the "upload" interface
> wich has a very simple authentication.. and the children or other
> teachers can access to the "files" aliases, without having to
> authenticate, and they wont be able to erase anything, upload or
> modify anything
>
> I'll admit that is not the safest way to share files using the
> schoolserver, but it works fine for us.. do you think that are other
> ways of doing this?? are other deployments using different methods??
>
> cheers.. R
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