The Cadabra Hosting File Manager

Posting files with an FTP tool is an out–of–date and really insecure method for transmitting files from your desktop computer or notebook to a web server. By reason of this, we have included drag’n’drop file publish support in the File Manager. Just pull the files that you want to add from your computer into your web browser and they’ll start to upload in your hosting profile through a protected SSL connection.

You don’t have to install any additional computer software, web browser extensions or applications. The drag & drop function operates equally well on Windows, Linux or Mac.

We’ve given our best to make the File Manager as user–friendly as it could possibly be, so you are able to come up with modifications for your files. Apart from the common command bar at the top of the webpage, we have in addition put in right–click context menus with the simple file administration options. Simply click on a file or directory and select the actions that you’d like from the collection which will appear.

You are able to rename, copy, move, download, edit, preview, archive, unarchive and delete any file or directory you decide with merely a mouse–click. Should you click on a folder, also you can establish a completely new folder or file inside it.

The right–click choice is also available whenever you pick different files or folders at the same time.

The File Manager features an internal archive/unarchive solution that can assist you submit massive archives and then extract them inside your web hosting account blazingly fast. When compressing a file or folder, it is possible to decide on the name for the archive that is to be created and its particular extension – .ZIP, .RAR or .TAR.GZ. Also, it is possible to compress already present files or folders with just a mouse–click.

The archive/unarchive option provided by the File Manager lets you make use of big files straight from your Web Site Control Panel. No reason to make use of any third party software such as an FTP client in an effort to upload a substantial file in your website hosting account or download an archive to your desktop.

The File Manager enables you to change your files entirely on the hosting server without the need to download, modify and then re–upload them. It’s possible to modify your files instantly online, working with the in–built editors. We provide you with a code editor offering syntax displaying for your .JS or .PHP files, a WYSIWYG editor for HTML files, in addition to a regular text editor for more skilled end users.

You can access every single file editor with the right–click contextual menus. All corrections produced to the files will be reflected immediately online – it’s possible to directly examine them within your browser.

All the files in your hosting account are structured into directories. Each host has its own main directory, which employs the file hierarchy that you have created. Using this method, it is really easy to deal with all your hosts in one location without the chance of becoming lost or baffled.

By default, you will notice each of the hosts listed in a table and if you mouse–click once over a given host, you’ll see each of the sub–folders and files associated with it. By clicking twice, you are going to go to a page that is focused entirely on that host alone. An alternative way to open the folder related to a particular host and also to use it solely, is to try using the drop–down menu towards the top of the main File Manager file table.

The vast majority of web File Managers are sluggish and very difficult to make use of. They feature constrained possibilities and generally aren’t really easy–to–work–with. We aim to change that by means of the Cadabra Hosting File Manager. It is designed to be intuitive and also to look like a product you know – the File Manager on your personal computer.

All of its functions, the drag’n’drop file upload solutions, the right–click context menus, the inbuilt file editors, etcetera are available for just one purpose – to help make handling your site(s) simpler.

You’ll be able to manage a lot of files simultaneously employing the multi–selection capability of the Cadabra Hosting File Manager. All you should do is just press the Control key and then click on the files or folders that you would like to pick. If you’d like to pick a pair of files/folders in a row at the same time, pick the first file/folder, press the Shift key and then click on the last file or folder within the collection.

For those who have selected the desired files/folders, you can either drag them to a different location, or apply various actions to them when using the right–click context menu as well as the buttons near the top of the file table.

There’s a single typical technique to safeguard a folder with a pass word – by making an .htaccess file. If, however, you aren’t technologically skilled sufficiently, you’ll have difficulties performing it without any help. To generate things simple, we have designed an intuitive password protection user interface to the File Manager readily available in the Web Site Control Panel.

To employ the option, just right–click on a directory and select Password Protection. After that submit the user name as well as the pass word that you want to make use of and press the button. That’s all. The chosen directory will be hidden from the regular website visitors and will be accessible only to authorized account owners.