X-Git-Url: https://git.p6c8.net/devedit.git/blobdiff_plain/94248ecd0f49b4a4e0719e080559d91ec1627dfb..1a37b41caf7b9bfbc6a52c590b0908e9f7e61f73:/README diff --git a/README b/README index d887a35..dc80581 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,14 +1,31 @@ -ReadMe for Dev-Editor 3.1 +ReadMe for Dev-Editor 3.2 ========================= Description ----------- Dev-Editor is a simple CGI based editor written in Perl and licensed under the -terms of the Artistic License, which allows remote changes to files and +terms of the Artistic License 2.0, which allows remote changes to files and 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 - core module since Perl 5.10, I guess) + Installation ------------ @@ -17,7 +34,7 @@ are able to execute scripts (in most cases, this is "cgi-bin"). I suggest to 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. @@ -103,7 +120,7 @@ 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.) are disabled. + (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 @@ -191,7 +208,7 @@ Hard links are not affected by this. ------------------------------------------------ (C) 1999-2000 Roland Bluethgen, Frank Schoenmann -(C) 2003-2009 Patrick Canterino +(C) 2003-2011 Patrick Canterino E-Mail: patrick@patshaping.de WWW: http://devedit.sourceforge.net/ \ No newline at end of file