HTTP Commander Admin panel
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Admin panel provides easy online interface that helps to setup folders for your users. Admin panel works with Data\Folders.xml file. You can also modify this file by yourself at Notepad. Also you can programmatically setup users and groups.
To run Admin panel:
- User should be an Administrator, i.e his name should be inside the administrators key at web.config
- Check that Read and Modify NTFS permissions for Data\ folder are set correctly.
- Open "/HTCOMNET/AdminPanel.aspx" in a browser or click Administration button on the toolbar of the main interface.
How to setup users and groups at Admin panel:
- Open "Users" tab and click "Add user..." to create a new user or "Edit user..." to edit the existing one.
- In the new window you can type user name and password.
- To assign users to the group open "Groups" tab. You can create new groups and to add existing users to it.
- Note! If you want to edit users and groups directly in database then open file Data\Accounts.xml at Notepad.
How to setup folders at Admin panel:
- Open "Folders" tab and click "Add folder..." to create a new folder or "Edit folder..." to edit the existing one.
- In the new window you can type a folder name (alias), a full path and manage the access for users to this folder:
- Insert an alias for the folder in the "Folder name" field , e.g. "My personal folder" or "Students shared", etc.
- Insert the full path to the folder in "Physical path" field. It can be a local path (e.g. 'c:\myfolder') , remote folder on a server (UNC format like \\MyServer\filesharename\directoryname) or DFS folder (like \\domain\DFSfolder).
You can also use the patterns for the folder path:
- %USERNAME% - the pattern will be replaced by a logon user name. For example, if you create "c:\personalfolders\%USERNAME%" for "jdoe" user, the path will be "c:\personalfolders\jdoe" when 'jdoe' logons into the HTTP Commander.
- %GROUPNAME% - the pattern will be replaced by a logon user's group name. For example, if you create "c:\%GROUPNAME%\%USERNAME%" for "Mike" user from "Students" group, the path will be "c:\Students\Mike".
Note! Don't create access to folders stored at the application root folder (Deleting of subfolders rises application restart).
- Now you need to specify users and groups who can have access to the created folder:
- Click "Add user..." button to make access for a single user or "Add group..." to make access for a whole group of users.
- In the new dialogue window, insert a user name or a group name, like jdoe or Students2009 (Without domain name prefix!).
Here you can also use regular expression:
Insert "regex:" in the beginning of the line if you want to use regular expression.
Example 1: regex:^(jdoe|Mike)$
- this regular expression means two users: jdoe and Mike.
Example 2: regex:Students
- this regular expression means all groups with "Students" in their names, e.g. "Students2008", "Students2009", etc.
- If you want to provide access for any user, you need to type
regex:.*
- this regular expression means any user name. If all your visitors have the same folders and you want to skip authentication process, read "How I can skip Forms authentication?" in FAQ section.
- After users or groups are specified, you can set permissions to folders for the users.
- Select a user or a group name in the list.
- Set necessary permissions in the right part:
"Access control" group - uncheck different kinds of permissions to disable them.
"List restrictions" - This option controls file listing. Click "Deny" radio button to hide files with specified extensions. Insert prohibited extensions separating them by comma (e.g. "EXE,BAT,COM"). Set "Allow" radio button and insert extensions of the files that will be shown (e.g. "DOC,PDF,JPG").
"Create restrictions" - This function is similar to "List restrictions", but it controls files uploading, zip extraction, creating new files. You can prohibit or enable uploading of specified files.
- Click "Save" button to save changes.
- User should logoff and logon again to view new created folders.
In the Admin panel you can also login the Diagnostics page (click Diagnostics sign in the toolbar) or view license type (click License information in the toolbar).