[ale] Web based file storage

[philip at turmel.org (Phil Turmel)]

On 07/19/2013 04:09 AM, Alex Carver wrote:
> Do any of you have a recommendation for a web based file storage system?
>  I want to have something that has basic authentication (i.e. can you
> see the files or not, doesn't have to get more granular), handles very
> large files (upwards of 20MB or more at a time), and can provide a tree
> navigation.  Revision control is not necessary so SVN/Github isn't quite
> what I'm looking for.  Essentially I'm trying to make a NAS with a web
> front end.  The users won't be able to mount the server directly so it
> has to be entirely web access for navigation and file manipulation.
> 
> I was testing the dotproject file storage system and it's not exactly
> easy to use.  The server is going to run dotproject for doing the task
> management but I need something better for file management.

Have you considered WebDAV?  I use it over https to my VPS.  The apache
module for it can use any normal authentication.

Konqueror in KDE can browse it just like a regular filesystem using the
"webdavs://" protocol.  Windows explorer has similar support.

Phil