ftp

[William Wilson]

I have ftp facilities on my website and I want to create an upload area for clients to place their files. Preferably with an upload page with a username/password and ideally have a user/password admin facility.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what approach I should take on this rather technical feature?

(I'm trying to keep it in plain English :lol: )

 

[DuaneJackson]

it'd all depend on the setup of your hosting.

If you have a cntrol panel you can do it with that, if you have a good host drop them an email and they should do it for you.

 

[Rob Holmes]

Hi William,

Here are a couple of scripts that may help..

Directory: http://scripts.dbmasters.net/index.php

Php file manager: http://www.gatequest.net/

If you ask your hosting company they may install them for you.

Hope this helps,

Rob

 

[ChrisOrm]

Hi William,

You could benefit from having a database system online which allows clients to login to their own area and upload files.

Having an admin login would also be useful so that you can access all of your clients files securely.

I've built similar systems before which work quite well, you may also be able to find some free scripts which work in the same way, try searching for document management systems, one of those may do the trick for you.

 

[William Wilson]

My present host can't help me, but say I can use scripts.

A friend said why not use a forum package it has upload areas, database facilities, user rights, private forum per client and admin facilities that may just be a way around it.

 

[ChrisOrm]

Hmm, a Forum would allow other clients to see what others have posted wouldn't it? A forum may not help your image either, looks a bit cheap.

Try http://www.opendocman.com, it's free and might be suitable. I haven't used it myself though.

Chris

 

[William Wilson]

The forums would be private for each client and would not look like a forum per se basically using the databases and admin tools with scripting and html. Worth exploring.

I will check out the link opendocman.

 

[SuffolkDesigns]

what control panel do you have with your host, if it is cpanel or directadmin it should be quite easy.

with cpanel, creating an ftp account with a username also creates a directory of the same name that is the base directory for anyone logging in with that username

with directadmin, when you create a ftp account you can specify which directory you want that user to have access to.

 

[William Wilson]

Been having a look a cPanel and that's another piece of the jigsaw sorted, thanks for the great guidance.

 

[SuffolkDesigns]

Been having a look a cPanel and that's another piece of the jigsaw sorted, thanks for the great guidance.

If you need any help with cpanel feel free to send me a pm

 

[William Wilson]

Just watched a host of tutorial videos seems pretty straight forward, thanka gain wil PM if I hit the wall with it.