Setup Web-based File manager For Your Home Server
I love Web Applications. The ease of use Web application with just a Web Browser makes life lot easier. And future trend also moving towards Web Apps Eg- Chrome webstore, Google Apps, ZOHO.
This tutorial is about setting up a Web based File Manager which suits best for your home server or a file server helping to view, download and upload files and keep you data in one place. Imagine you have a wireless laptop and want to listen music on your server simply with a web browser, this is the way to go.
Recently I was searching an application for this purpose and found a stunning Open-source web based File Manager called Mollify. This application has cool features like audio video streaming and etc…
Following are required to setup Mollify
1. A web server with PHP and MySQL
You can download XAMPP Server (Suite of Apache, MySQL, PHP)
In the video I’ve described the rest.
Part – 1
In this video. I explain how to install XAMPP and configure web server and mysql database server.
Download XAMPP for Windows from here.
Part – 2
This video explains how to setup mollify.
Download Mollify from here