The Lord Web Solutions File Manager

Transferring files between your desktop machine and any of your web sites is now fast and simple, thanks to the drag–and–drop feature provided by the File Manager. You could pull files from your computer and drop them in your Site Control Panel through a secure SSL connection. That’s all. It will take a few seconds to add a file and slightly longer for any bigger data files and directories.

There’s no need to deploy any third–party application or Internet browser extensions. The drag & drop function contained in the File Manager operates equally efficiently on all major OS’s.

The vast majority of File Managers include all the activities that one can execute with a file or directory on the top of the page. We feel that the latter is just not user–friendly enough. Thanks to the File Manager, you can access all file management choices any time you right–click a file or folder. This method is likewise applicable for numerous files/folders.

It is possible to rename, copy, move, download, edit, preview, archive, unarchive and delete any file or directory you select using a mouse–click.

Compared to the vast majority of file management interfaces and FTP (File Transfer Protocol) clients, the Lord Web Solutions Site Control Panel features an option to archive/unarchive files much faster. It is easy–to–work–with. To have a directory reduced to a compact size, just choose it and click on the Compress button. To unwrap the items in an archived folder inside your cloud hosting account, pick it and then click the Extract button. The File Manager works with a variety of file extensions, such as .ZIP, .RAR and .TAR.GZ.

Lord Web Solutions’s File Manager permits you to edit your files entirely on the server with no need to download, adjust and subsequently re–upload them. You can revise your files directly online, by using our in–built editors. You will find a code editor with syntax emphasizing for your .JS or .PHP files, a WYSIWYG editor for HTML files, as well as a regular text editor for more experienced end users.

You have access to every file editor through the right–click context menus. All of the changes produced to the files are shown straight away online – you can directly preview them inside the browser.

All the files inside your website hosting account are structured into directories. Every single web host features its own main folder, that employs the file hierarchy that you have selected. By doing this, it is really effortless to manage all of your current hosts in one location with no probability of getting lost or perplexed.

By standard, you’ll see all of the hosts conveniently listed in a table and if you click once on a given host, you will observe all the sub–folders and files pertaining to it. By clicking on two times, you are going to go to a page that’s focused on that host exclusively. An additional way to load the folder pertaining to a particular host and then to use it solely, is to try using the drop–down menu near the top of the main File Manager file table.

The vast majority of online File Managers are slow and tricky to make use of. They provide limited options and are not really intuitive. We aim to improve that through the Lord Web Solutions File Manager. It was created to be time and effort saving and to resemble an item you you are already familiar with – the File Manager on your computer.

All of its features, the drag’n’drop file upload options, the right–click context menus, the in–built file editors, etc. are available for a single purpose – to make managing your website(s) a lot easier.

You can handle a large number of files concurrently making use of the multi–selection capacity of the Lord Web Solutions File Manager. All you need to do is simply press the Control key and then click on the files or folders that you would like to choose. If you need to select a collection of files/folders in a row at the same time, click the first file/folder, press the Shift key after which choose the very last file or folder within the selection.

If you have chosen the desired files/folders, you can either drag them to a different spot, or use a variety of actions to them using the right–click contextual menu or the buttons at the top of the file table.

There’s one standard approach to shield a directory with a pass word – by making an .htaccess file. In case, however, you aren’t technically competent enough, you’ll have difficulties doing it all on your own. For making things easy, we’ve designed an intuitive password protection interface to the File Manager readily available within the Site Control Panel.

To make use of this option, simply right–click on a folder and pick Password Protection. Then add the user name plus the password that you like to implement and then click on the button. That’s all. The picked directory will be undetectable by the standard users and will also be available only to authorized account holders.