File Manager
The filemanager is an alternate way of copying, deleting, uploading or moving files to your website instead of using an ftp program. You can get to the filemanager by clicking File Manager from the main menu, you will then be taken into the filemanager and out of the normal control panel screen. Along the top and bottom of the screen will be the options for creating, uploading etc and a handy function for finding files.
clicking on upload will bring up an option at the bottom, it will say where you are currently going to be uploading to and
how to transfer the file (Auto will detect the type of file you are uploading and choose the correct format).
clicking browse will open up a box for you to select the file(s) off of your harddrive. Select the file(s) you would
like to transfer and click upload. Depending on the size of the file(s) you will then be met with the same screen but
you should see that the file is now in your sites directory and at the bottom the status will say 'file XXX was uploaded in auto mode'.
You have successfully uploaded a file to your website. Please note that the folder you need
to upload to is: /public_html/ OR /sitename/html/ (the first is just a shortcut to the second) any CGi/Perl scripts will need to be placed in the /CGI-BIN/
Please note that deleting is _permenant_ you will not be able to recover the file unless you have a site backup or a copy
of the file elsewhere. First you will need to decide what file(s) or folder(s) need to be removed and tick each checkbox
for the files. When you tick a box the background behind the file and details will darken so you can distinguish what
files have been selected. when you are sure of the files/folders you would like to delete then click delete along the
bottom command bar. You will then be asked via a messagebox to confirm your deletion of these files, Ok will delete them
and cancel will stop the deletion. Once you have deleted the file the status will update itself with 'X files and X Directories removed' and you will notice that the file is no longer on the site.
You may want to create files or new folders on the website, one reason may be that you would like to keep all the images seperate from your actual html files. To do this click 'New Dir' and enter the name at the bottom of the screen then click create. Siteworx will report the status back with 'XXXXX Directory has been created' and you should see it in the main window.
Siteworx has an inbuilt editor capable of editing text based files (.htm .php .pl etc) and also saving them all from within your browser! To do this from inside your filemanager tick the file you would like to edit and click 'edit' this will bring up a page displaying the text file, that is now editable, when you are finished editing the file you can choose to save it over the original or as another file by entering the new name into the box at the top of the screen.
You may want to move files about in your website. To do this just check the files you would like to move and click 'move' you will then have box at the bottom of the screen under the status where you will need to enter the name of the directory you would like to move the file to and click the 'move' button. Status will tell us if the move was successful.
How to Change permissions on files (CHMOD).
At times you will need to chmod a file or folder, this means changing the permissions on the file/folder usually when installing PHP or CGI scripts.
Check the box on the file(s) or folder(s) that you would like to edit and select chmod from the bottom toolbar.
This will bring up the options for file at the bottom. You have the option of entering the numeric code eg 777 or you can change the individual permissions using the tickboxes. Once you have selected permissions click chmod and siteworx will apply the changes which will be viewable in the main screen at the end of the filename. For details on what these permissions mean check out http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=chmod+commands
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