Topic: Newbie permission problem

[jrossi85]

Hello all,

I recently installed SME on my server and I was having problems with my ibay permissions.  I was wondering if it was at all possible to give permissions for one ibay to edit the files of another.  I have installed multiple file managers (for my friends who will be managing a website on my server), mostly PHP, so that they can just login from their browser and edit the site.  The file managers worked great if I have it installed in the ibay that also contains the site, but in addition to the website files I see the file manager files as well.  I wanted to keep the file manager to another ibay so I only see the files from the website.  I tried setting the permissions to the same group and allowing read/write/execute to the group etc (I'm a newbie at this, remember).  

Also, the website files I want to edit are in my Primary ibay, although I have tried using a different ibay and neither worked.  I tried changing the base directory of the website in the file manager settings to multiple things to find out where the problem was.  I found that it could not reach anything outsite of its own ibay folder.  Once I get to the folder that has all of the ibays, all of the file managers say either "invalid folder" or "no permissions".  Any ideas/suggestions are greatly appreciated.

[jrossi85]

does anybody have any alternatives to a web-based file manager?  The people that I intend to have access and modify the websites files won't want to deal with FTP or SSH or whatever.  What have other people used for file managers or similar, to control their site.

[kruhm]

won't want to deal with FTP

if your trying to manage a web site and you don't want to deal with FTP, then you have bigger problems.

i suppose if your trying to get a web editor for your page, the editors don't have any idea of html or html editors.

why don't you move to a cms (like phpnuke, postnuke, xoops, mambo, typo3) to handle everything for you?

[jrossi85]

I'll try them... I just hope it's not too complicated for the people I'm working on this for.  Thank you.