-ReadMe for Dev-Editor 3.0 (CVS)
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+ReadMe for Dev-Editor 3.2
+=========================
Description
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directory structures on a web server. That's useful if you aren't able to access
the files on your homepage directly, for example if you are on holiday.
+Features
+--------
+
+- Browsing through directory structures
+- Viewing text files
+- Editing text files
+- Removing files and directories
+- Moving/renaming files and directories
+- Copying files and directories
+- Creating new files and directories
+- Executing a HTTP download of a file
+- Uploading files to the server via HTTP
+- Changing permissions (chmod) and group (chgrp) of files and directories (on
+ Unix systems)
+- Unpacking some types of archive files (Perl module Archive::Extract is
+ required)
+
Installation
------------
create a sub directory for Dev-Editor.
Then, you have to change the first line of devedit.pl: Just replace
/usr/bin/perl by the path to your Perl interpreter.
-If you are on a UNIX based system, you have to set devedit.pl as executable
+If you are on a Unix based system, you have to set devedit.pl as executable
(chmod 755 in most cases).
You will also need to configure Dev-Editor. See the next section for details.
It's just used for visual output, so it doesn't need to
be correct.
+startdir Here you may define the default directory Dev-Editor
+ opens on start.
+
max_file_size Here you may define a maximum size for files (Bytes).
If the user wants to view or edit a file larger than
this defined size, Dev-Editor denies file access (but
Time (GMT/UTC) in directory listing and in the About
dialogue instead of the local time.
+hide_dot_files Set this option to 1 if you want to hide files or
+ directories beginning with a dot (e.g. ".htaccess") in
+ directory listing.
+ The files are just hidden in the directory listing,
+ you can still access them typing the name into the
+ "Go to directory/file" box.
+
forbidden Specify a list of filenames the user is not allowed to
access. The filenames have to be relative to the
virtual root directory (they must also begin with a
slash) and have to be separated by space characters. If
a filename contains space characters, you have to put
- it into double quotation marks ("/filename").
+ it into double quotation marks ("/file name").
+
+disable_commands Specify a list of commands the user is not allowed to
+ execute. The commands have to be separated by space
+ characters.
+ If you add "@write" to the list, all writing commands
+ (for example edit, copy, rename etc.) get disabled.
userconf_file Specifies the path to a file which contains
user-dependent configuration options (see next section
If you have placed Dev-Editor inside a directory protected using HTTP
authentication, you may override some default configuration values for a defined
-list of users. You may override the values for "fileroot", "httproot" and
-"forbidden".
+list of users. You may override the values for the following configuration
+options:
+
+- fileroot
+- httproot
+- startdir
+- hide_dot_files
+- forbidden
+- disable_commands
For overriding configuration values you need a special configuration file. The
path to this file is defined using the "userconf_file" configuration option in
aliases = marge bart
Using this, the users whose usernames are "marge" and "bart" use the same
-configuration as "homer". Place any number of username seperated by whitespaces
-here.
+configuration as "homer". You can place an arbitrary number of usernames
+seperated by whitespaces here.
Note: If one of the users mentioned as an alias and an individual configuration
section for this user exists too, the one mentioned as an alias is ignored.
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(C) 1999-2000 Roland Bluethgen, Frank Schoenmann
-(C) 2003-2005 Patrick Canterino
+(C) 2003-2011 Patrick Canterino
E-Mail: patrick@patshaping.de
WWW: http://devedit.sourceforge.net/
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