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06-09-2011, 05:28 PM #1KM Carpenter
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Looking for a FTP browser script.
Hey there.
I am looking for a PHP script that will allow users to login to my FTP server and do read-only actions. such as view and download files. The script must require a login page as there are multiple FTP accounts.
Thank's for any information.
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06-09-2011, 05:31 PM #2Temporarily Suspended
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I have heard of a few, but I would not suggest using this mean to connect to a FTP, you are likly to case security braches
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06-09-2011, 05:58 PM #3KM Carpenter
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Oh....Ok.. I didn't know that.
Just trying to make it easier for clients to access my FTP.
In the construction business when I say FTP client, everyone is like "huh?"
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06-09-2011, 06:34 PM #4Temporarily Suspended
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Just break it down in terms they understand. Say a program that allows you to connect to a server (Your Website)
Web Design Industry is allot different the web hosting industry.
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06-09-2011, 07:47 PM #5Web Hosting Evangelist
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Is there any particular reason you are wanting do this by means of FTP? If you are only going to allow them viewing privileges, then in my opinion, FTP isn't necessary.
I would create a simple PHP script that would get the contents of a designated directory. It doesn't need to be anything fancy, just list the title and a link to each respective file. Then for security, a simply .htaccess password prompt would do the trick.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.dir.php.
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06-09-2011, 07:57 PM #6Web Hosting Evangelist
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06-09-2011, 08:08 PM #7Web Hosting Evangelist
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http://www.net2ftp.com/
You can try setting up that script however it is recommended that you don't leave that on a publicly accessible page (it's very common people search for open installations of this and end up playing with your files)VEXXHOST, Inc.
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06-09-2011, 11:44 PM #8Temporarily Suspended
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06-10-2011, 08:35 AM #9KM Carpenter
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I suppose I could make it http instead of FTP. I can just list the files of the FTP directory. That way I can still allow FTP access if the user needs to. I am using FTP because sometimes there is 2 or 3 files and sometimes there is 2 or 3 hundred files.
The only problem is. I will need to create 2 accounts now. One to login to the http system and an actual FTP account, unless someone can tell me how I can authenticate the http access using ftp account credentials.
Thanks.
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06-13-2011, 05:47 AM #10Temporarily Suspended
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How you could do this would depend on your hosting environment, Linux or Windows, and whether you have root access to the server or shared host. If you are on shared hosting I think this might not be possible. If you have your own root access then you could build web authentification based of the passwd files.
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