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How do I use the File Manager?

How do I use the File Manager?

Let's get started by clicking on "File Manager" in the left panel (Control Panel > Site Admin).

1. Displaying folders and files

The File Manager will shows in a new pop up window so please make sure you enable pop up window feature in your browser.
At the first loading it takes some time for File Manager to generate a structure view for you.
Your member folder will be displayed in a "folded tree" view. It is pretty convenient for you to browse the content of an upper
level folder by simply clicking on its name.
Its subfolders will then be displayed in the left panel under the parent folder and its files will be listed in the right panel.
The following screenshot shows what File Manager panel looks like:

2. Management of folders and files

By right clicking a folder a menu pops up through which you can perform the following actions:
1. create new subfolder
2. create new file
3. set permission
4. rename folder
5. copy folder
6. delete folder
7. zip folder

By right clicking a file a menu pops up through which you can perform the following actions:
1. edit file
2. download file
3. set permission
4. rename file
5. copy file
6. delete file
7. zip file

Please notice that there are 2 different editors when creating a new file or editing an existing file:
"Editor" and "HTML Editor". The first one is a normal plain text editor while the second one is a rich text format editor. The "HTML Editor" is convenient for editing HTML files because it contains a series of text formatting tools such as font editor, align control, hyperlink and anchor editor. It can show a html file in the
same appearance as it displays in a browser.
But if you are going to create or edit a program source file or xml file the "HTML Editor" may not be suitable because it may mis-recognize and filter out some tags of the file and does not display the file content properly. So please use plain text "Editor" for files other than html.

Here is a screenshot of the "HTML Editor" which shows a html page for uploading files:

3. Uploading files to server

On top of the folder tree there is an "Upload" text button with a small green arrow. By clicking it you can upload files to server via secure protocol of "Web SFTP". Please notice that for this function to work you need to set the password of your main ftp account to be the same as your control panel password. You may reset ftp password at control panel -> security -> ftp manager.
The "Upload" component is based on Java Applet so it requires Java Runtime Environment to be installed on your local machine.

As an alternative, we provide "classic" upload method which you can upload files via normal http protocol. In case that FTP connection is blocked in your local network environment. You can choose the classic method by clicking the "Classic" tab.

Following is a screenshot of the "Upload" panel:

4. Set file/folder permission

For Windows hosting :

IUSR_MemberID = Internet browser users (web visitors)
INTERACTIVE = Internal computer use only
NETWORK = Internal computer use only
Administrator = Used by technical support only
SYSTEM = For the computer itself to manipulate your files
Network Service = Asp.net user (used for asp.net application)

For Linux hosting

You can set the file permission by permission number (755, 777, 644, etc) or click the check box.
For more detail information of linux permission, please click <here>

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