The UrlGuru.com File Manager

The File Manager in your Online Control Panel features a rapid, drag–and–drop function that will assist you to move files between your PC and your website hosting profile without needing to employ an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client. You can drag data files from your computer and drop them in your Online Control Panel with a mouse–click by using a secure SSL connection.

The drag–and–drop functionality is integrated into the Online Control Panel, so that you don’t have to mount any third–party software to apply it. It will also work on all popular Os’s, so all you should do to make use of it is sign in to your File Manager.

We have given our best to make File Manager as intuitive as it can be, so it is easy to produce alterations to your files. Besides the typical control bar near the top of the webpage, we have now also put in right–click contextual menus with all the current simple file managing possibilities. Simply click on a file or folder and choose the action that you like within the selection which will pop up.

You’re able to rename, copy, move, download, edit, preview, archive, unarchive and delete any file or directory you choose with a mouse–click. If you click on a folder, also you can set up a different directory or file in it.

The right–click option is available as well whenever you choose numerous files or folders simultaneously.

The File Manager provides an internal archive/unarchive option to help you to submit substantial archives and then extract them within your hosting account in seconds. When compressing a file or folder, you are able to select the title of the archive that’ll be created plus its extension – .ZIP, .RAR or .TAR.GZ. In addition, it’s possible to archive already present files or folders with just a mouse–click.

The archive/unarchive option offered by the File Manager enables you to use large files right from your Online Control Panel. No need to employ any third party software for instance an FTP client so as to upload a substantial file onto your account or download an archive to your desktop.

UrlGuru.com’s File Manager permits you to modify your files on the server without the need to download, change and re–upload them. It is easy to revise your files straight away on the net, by making use of our in–built editors. We provide a code editor equipped with syntax displaying for your .PHP or .JS files, a WYSIWYG editor for HTML files, plus a standard text editor for the more experienced customers.

You can access every file editor with the right–click context menus. All of the changes made to the files are demonstrated automatically online – you can directly examine them inside the web browser.

All the files in your hosting account are separated into directories. Every single host has its own main folder, that employs the file structure which you have created. By doing this, it is an easy task to control all of your hosts from a single place with no probability of getting lost or confused.

By standard, you will see each of the hosts conveniently placed in a table and if you mouse–click once on a specific host, you’ll see the whole set of sub–folders and files related to it. By clicking on two times, you are going to visit a page that’s devoted to that host exclusively. Another way to open the folder pertaining to a particular host and also to use it solely, is to use the drop–down menu near the top of the main File Manager file table.

The vast majority of online File Managers are slow and difficult to use. They offer constrained possibilities and typically are not really user–friendly. We seek to transform that by means of the UrlGuru.com File Manager. It’s meant to be practical and to resemble an item you know – the File Manager on your PC.

All its attributes, the drag & drop file upload options, the right–click context menus, the integrated file editors, etcetera exist for a single purpose – to help make maintaining your web site(s) a lot easier.

Using the UrlGuru.com File Manager, you are able to select multiple files or folders just like you do notebook or desktop computer. Just hold down the Control (Command for Apple’s Mac OS) key and then click the desired files/folders. Or, to choose a good amount of files/folders at the same time, click on one file/folder, press the Shift key and then click any other file or folder.

Having once chosen the whole set of files that you’ll require, you’re able to drag them into a different location, or take advantage of the right–click contextual menu to find out a listing of the accessible features.

There is one popular technique to safeguard a directory using a password – by making an .htaccess file. In case, however, you’re not technically experienced sufficiently, you will have issues doing the work without any help. For making things simple for you, we’ve included a straightforward password protection user interface to the File Manager obtainable within the Online Control Panel.

To employ the option, simply right–click on a folder and choose Password Protection. Then fill in the user name plus the security password that you like to employ and click on the button. That’s all. Now the particular folder is hidden from the standard users and will be accessible only to previously approved account holders.