The HostAura File Manager

Publishing files with an FTP client is an out–of–date and quite an insecure way for transferring files from your desktop machine or notebook to a web server. That’s why, we have included drag’n’drop file publish support in the File Manager. Simply drag the files that you want to upload from your PC into your browser and they will start to publish in your web hosting account through a protected SSL connection.

You don’t have to mount any additional computer software, browser extensions or applications. The drag–and–drop function works equally well on Windows, Linux and Mac.

Because of the right–click menus we have integrated in the File Manager, you are able to manage your files in a time and effort saving manner. Simply click on a file or directory and through the panel which will show up, choose the action you want. It is possible to rename, copy, move, download, edit, preview, archive, unarchive and delete virtually any selected file. If you click on a folder, additionally, you’ll see the option to make a different sub–folder or file inside it.

If you choose many different files or directories, it is easy to apply the same actions for all of them simultaneously.

The File Manager features a built in archive/unarchive option that will help you add enormous archives and then extract them in to your cloud hosting account in seconds. Once compressing a file or directory, you’ll be able to select the title for the archive that’ll be created as well as its extension – .ZIP, .RAR or .TAR.GZ. At the same time, it is possible to compress current files or folders with simply a click of the mouse.

The archive/unarchive solution provided by the File Manager allows you to work with big files straight from your Web Hosting Control Panel. No reason to make use of any third party software like an FTP client in order to upload a huge file in your web hosting account or download any kind of archive on your desktop.

We have bundled a group of file editors within the Web Hosting Control Panel to help you out generate easy and quick transformations to your files and never have to apply third–party software. Within the File Manager you’ll find a WYSIWYG editor that can assist you check any changes you create live, a code editor that has syntax emphasizing for your personal .PHP or .JS files, and a plain text editor for more competent users. All the changes that you come up with and keep can be demonstrated instantly online.

You can access the file editors using the buttons near the top of the file table as well as by right–clicking a particular file/folder.

If you are working with a lot of different websites concurrently, it’s important to have everything sorted out. With other File Managers, modifying a lot of sites inside the same account is quite challenging. With the File Manager, you’ll find that it is in fact quite easy. Every single web site does have its own folder, which you’ll right away identify, including all of the files related to the given web site are found there.

And to make things even easier, we have a drop–down navigation from which you can quickly choose on exactly which host you would like to work in the File Manager. Our smart system will take you there within seconds.

Making use of your files is user–friendly and effortless when using the HostAura Web Hosting Control Panel. You’ll try a file managing atmosphere that’s very close to your desktop PC’s file explorer. You’re able to drag and drop files and deal with all of them with a right click of the mouse. Thanks to the built in review solution, you can observe visuals just like they will show up online, and through the bundled file editors you can easily make transformations for your files immediately.

If you would like guidance maintaining your files, you can actually consider the large assortment of articles and how–to educational videos, which you can get using a mouse–click.

You’ll be able to handle many files at the same time while using the multi–selection capacity of the HostAura File Manager. What you need to do is simply press the Control key and click on the files or folders you want to pick. If you need to choose a range of files/folders in a row immediately, click on the first file/folder, click the Shift key and afterwards click on the last file or folder within the set.

If you have picked the desired files/folders, you can either drag them to a specific spot, or employ diverse actions to them when using the right–click context menu or the buttons at the top of the file table.

There is one typical approach to guard a directory with a password – by generating an .htaccess file. If, however, you are not technologically experienced sufficiently, you will have trouble doing it all by yourself. To make things simple for you, we have included an easy–to–use password protection user interface to the File Manager obtainable in the Web Hosting Control Panel.

To employ the option, simply right–click on a directory and select Password Protection. After that add the login name and the password which you want to work with and then press the button. That’s all. Now the particular directory is hidden by the regular website visitors and will also be accessible just to approved visitors.