[BlueOnyx:27307] 5210R/5211R: FTP File Manager integrated

[Michael Stauber]

Hi all,

A GUI based FTP File Manager has been added to BlueOnyx 5210R/5211R.

Web link: 
https://www.blueonyx.it/news/344/15/5210R5211R-FTP-File-Manager-integrated/


BlueOnyx 5210R/5211R FTP File Manager
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This day and age more and more end-users seem to be challenged with 
uploading files to their webspace via FTP. After all: Drag and drop file 
upload via the browser has become the dominant standard. To help you and 
your users towards that end we looked at bringing back an GUI based FTP 
client to BlueOnyx. The previous one went out of fashion after BlueOnyx 
5209R, as it was no longer supported and had issues with more modern PHP 
versions.

So now we integrated something newer that is still maintained: elFinder 
and released it as regular YUM update for BlueOnyx 5210R and BlueOnyx 
5211R (see attached screenshot).


How it works:
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When a GUI user logs into the BlueOnyx GUI, he can find the new item 
under "Programs" / "File Manager". Depending on the privileges of the 
logged in user the "Programs" menu is in different locations, but it's 
easy to find. If FTP is enabled on the BlueOnyx server and the user has 
FTP access, then the user will be automatically logged into elFinder and 
can see whatever files and folders he has access to by FTP.

Uploads work via drag and drop and files and folders can be copied, 
renamed, edited, viewed or deleted. Provided that the file permissions 
allow such transactions.

The File Manager application does not provide more or fewer rights than 
any regular FTP access of said user would grant. And it can only be used 
by users authenticated against the GUI with the login credentials used 
during GUI login.

The ability to view or edit files on the server (even code) is neat, as 
is the ability to do web based uploads.


We hope you like it! Enjoy!

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber
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