The Commit Hosting File Manager

The File Manager in your Control Panel offers a rapid, drag–and–drop function that can help you transfer data files between your PC and your hosting profile without the need to work with an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) tool. You can easily pull files from your computer and drop them in your Control Panel with a mouse–click using a protected SSL connection.

The drag–and–drop characteristic is integrated into the Control Panel, so that you don’t have to install any third party software to make use of it. It will also work on all leading Operating Systems, so all you need to do to use it is sign in to your File Manager.

We have given our best to make the File Manager as intuitive as feasible, so it is possible to produce adjustments for your files. Apart from the standard command bar at the top of the webpage, we have additionally introduced right–click context menus with all the fundamental file control possibilities. Click on a file or directory and pick the actions which you want from the list that will turn up.

You can easily rename, copy, move, download, edit, preview, archive, unarchive and delete any file or folder you select using a click of the mouse. When you click a directory, it’s also possible to make a new folder or file within it.

The right–click choice is available as well any time you select numerous files or folders at the same time.

As opposed to a large number of file management interfaces as well as FTP clients, the Commit Hosting Control Panel provides an option to archive/unarchive files much more speedily. It is really intuitive. To get a folder shrunk into a compact size, just choose it and then click the Compress button. To open the belongings of an archived directory in your account, choose it and click on the Extract button. The File Manager uses numerous file extensions, just like .ZIP, .RAR and .TAR.GZ.

Commit Hosting’s File Manager helps you to manage your files entirely on the web server and never have to download, modify and subsequently re–upload them. It is easy to update your files straight away on the Internet, by making use of our inbuilt editors. We offer a code editor with syntax highlighting for your .PHP or .JS files, a WYSIWYG editor for HTML files, and also a standard text editor for more competent users.

You have access to each file editor when using the right–click context menus. All of the adjusts produced to the files appear straight away online – you’re able to directly preview them in your browser.

The File Manager lists all files and directories using an easy–to–understand alphabetical arrangement. The whole set of files related to the various hosts are arranged inside independent folders that are referred to as after their individual domain names, meaning you can immediately recognize them. This is actually useful when you are managing a range of sites concurrently. There isn’t any opportunity to get lost or to feel confused among the plethora of data files and directories within your cloud hosting account.

To gain access to the files with a specified host, just select it from the drop–down menu at the top of the file table. Alternatively, you’ll be able to double–click on its directory and you are at once taken up to a table showing its files only.

The Commit Hosting File Manager was designed in such a manner to help you feel similarly to using the services of the file explorer on your personal computer. It boasts a solution to drag your files and then to drop them in a desired location and shows all the readily available edit opportunities after clicking the right computer mouse button. Furthermore, the tool includes an internal file preview solution and various file editors that will help you modify your files right away straight from your Control Panel.

Additionally, we have bundled a set of file management posts and how–to video clips to guide you rather quickly learn how to make use of the tool.

You can easily manage a huge amount of files concurrently using the multi–selection capability of the Commit Hosting File Manager. All that you should do is just hold down the Control key and click on the files or directories which you want to select. If you want to pick a couple of files/folders in a row at once, pick the first file/folder, hold down the Shift key after which click on the last file or folder in the selection.

For people with picked the desired files/folders, you may either drag them to an alternative spot, or implement a variety of actions to them when using the right–click contextual menu or the buttons at the top of the file table.

There is a single common technique to secure a folder using a password – by generating an .htaccess file. In case, however, you aren’t technically competent enough, you will have trouble carrying it out without any help. To make things easy for you, we have added a user–friendly password protection user interface to the File Manager accessible within the Control Panel.

To use the option, simply right–click on a directory and pick Password Protection. Following that submit the login name plus the password which you want to employ and click on the button. That’s all. Now the picked folder will be concealed by the public eye and will also be available just to approved visitors.