Admin Guide Articles

Groups can be used for: Sharing a folder with multiple users at the same time. (You can also con...

To add or remove a user from a group follow these steps: Open the control panel. Select “Users”...

To create a new group follow these steps: Open the control Panle Select "Groups". Click 'Creat...

To change a group's name follow these steps:  Open the control panel. Select “Groups”. Select ...

To delete a group follow these steps: Open the control panel. Select “Groups”. Select the grou...

To create a new user account follow these steps: Open the control panel. Select “Users”. ...

Independent admin users can: See and manage only user accounts, roles and groups created by th...

To deactivate a user account follow these steps: Open the control panel. Select “Users”. ...

The superuser is the first account that is automatically created at FileRun installation. Its def...

Admin users can: Manage user accounts, except their own and other admins' accounts. Manag...

To edit a user account follow these steps: Open the control panel. Select “Users”. S...

To delete a user account follow these steps: Open the control panel. Select “Users”. ...

Configuration To be able to send e-mails from Web File Share, you need to either have PHP config...

Previewing documents The following file types can be previewed or opened with Web File Share by ...

When using Web File Share with a webhosting service, sometimes the server is located in a differe...

Most of the configuration is done from Web File Share's control panel. However, there are additio...

Web File Share configuration You can enable the full-text file searching from “Control Panel” » ...

Introduction Web File Share can make use of ImageMagick utility for generating image thumbnails ...

As an alternative, Web File Share can be also accessed with a standards-compliant WebDAV applicat...

As PHP 5 does not have support for Unicode filenames, Web File Share can handle filenames that us...

AES Crypt (http://www.aescrypt.com) is a file encryption software available on several operating ...

Login as superuser, open the control panel and locate the ID of the group or user you want to con...

There are two quick steps (that require PHP knowledge) to set up thirdparty authentication: Defi...

Web File Share can connect to "Joomla CMS" application to share its authentication system. So a J...

This quick guide will help you configure Web File Share to authenticate the users against the dat...

Editing a translation Select a language by clicking on its name. The translation is split in sev...

Quick start for PHP developers Read the Authorization section bellow to understand the requi...

Custom PHP scripts can be automatically executed when the users perform one of the 57 monitored a...

Applies to Web File Share version (260213) To keep track of the files' download count, please fo...

DEV Files This is a list of most customized Web File Share files and folders: /css/style.css T...

Custom Modules This page provides some details on how to add a custom PHP script to Web File Sha...

When accessing files via WebLinks, if possible, the browser will try to open the file itself, ins...

You can easily add custom options inside the "Open with.." file contextual menu. Here is a step b...

Hash Files To automatically calculate and store the files' MD5 checksum values, so you can verif...

Applies to Web File Share version (291210) The menus are defined inside the file "/path-to-WebFi...

Custom PHP scripts can be automatically executed when the users perform one of the monitored acti...

The following is a PHP code snippet that displays a login form which provides feedback without sh...

The options that are displayed in the "Open with..." menu are called "custom actions". Each custo...

If you wish to automatically login visitors to WebFileShare without asking them to fill in the lo...

Creating a custom “Open with..” file contextual menu option: The plugin folder structure ...

As software updates are replacing Web File Share's files regardless of the fact that they have be...

  Running the following from the command line should give you a new password: cd cron cron> ph...

Making a backup This article doesn't cover backing up your user files, but only the Web File Sha...

If you are running Web File Share for "Zend Guard Loader" and want to upgrade to PHP 5.4, or simp...

PHP5.4 If you are running Web File Share on PHP 5.3 with "ionCube", then you can upgrade your se...

Migrating to a new server There are three components to a Web File Share installation: The ...

To install software updates please follow these steps: Access your Web File Share installa...

The Web File Share application files that are currently in use on your PHP 5 server were designed...

You can change the MySQL connection information inside the file “system/data/autoconfig.php”. Si...

The following command line script can be used for deleting old files from users home folders. ph...

If you were running a recent Web File Share version on PHP 5.3 or PHP 5.4, you should be able to ...

Roles can be used to easily apply sets of permissions to multiple users at the same time. If you...

To delete a role follow these steps: Open the control panel. Select “Roles”. Select ...

To create a new role follow these steps: Open the control panel. Select “Roles”. Cli...

To edit a role follow these steps: Open the control panel. Select “Roles”. Select th...

WebFileShare works with most hosting service, with either their shared or dedicated plans. If you...

Installing ionCube on Ubuntu Please see https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-...

Assisted installation (Loader Wizard) The “Loader Wizard” is a PHP script that can help you with...

You can do it your self, if you have access to the PHP configuration file “php.ini”. Most hosting...

Since version 301013, Quik File Share provides a way for the users to quickly see changes made by...

Web File Share keeps an activity log for each file available in the users' home folders. This is ...

This is an add-on to be used with Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail program. This add-on allows you to ...

If your RAW photographs are very large and it takes a long time for WebFileShare/ImageMagick to g...

Metadata is information that a file can have attached to it. You can attach information like: com...

You can keep your remote folders in sync with your local ones, or the other way around with the d...

To be able to use the mobile apps with your Web File Share installation you need to enable the AP...

Drag & drop upload mode The "Drag files from your computer here" text is not displayed The dr...

Error: The path of your home folder doesn't point to an existing folder. When setting a user's ...

Internet Explorer over HTTPS: Internet Explorer Cannot Download [...] Please set "session.cache_...

Linux: Files larger than 2GB do not show up in the list. On Linux servers, PHP needs to be confi...

Metadata is information that a file can have attached to it. You can attach information like: com...

Basics Each user has a home folder, which is an actual folder on the server's file system. Users...