The GalantHost File Manager

The File Manager in your Website Control Panel offers a fast, drag’n’drop function that will allow you to move files between your computer and your website hosting profile with no need to apply an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) tool. You can pull files from your personal computer and drop them in your Website Control Panel with a click of the mouse using a safe SSL connection.

The drag’n’drop function is integrated into the Website Control Panel, therefore, you don’t need to deploy any third party software pack to take full advantage of it. It will also work on all major Os’s, so all you should do to make use of it is sign in to your File Manager.

Thanks to the right–click menus that we have added to the File Manager, you are able to alter all of your files easier than ever. Simply click on a file or folder and through the panel that will show up, pick the action you want. You’ll be able to rename, copy, move, download, edit, preview, archive, unarchive and delete any selected file. When you click a folder, furthermore, you will view the option to establish a brand new sub–folder or file within it.

Whenever you choose many different files or folders, it’s possible to use identical measures to all of them simultaneously.

The File Manager provides an in–built archive/unarchive option to assist you add huge archives and extract them in to your account in seconds. When compressing a file or directory, you’ll be able to select the name of the archive that is to be created and its extension – .ZIP, .RAR or .TAR.GZ. Also, you’ll be able to compress current files or folders with a mouse–click.

The archive/unarchive alternative you can find at the File Manager really helps to use huge files right from your Website Control Panel. You don’t need to make use of any third–party software such as an FTP client as a way to upload a huge file to your account or download any kind of archive in your desktop.

From the File Manager you’ll be able to revise your files instantly online by making use of any of the internal software tools. The text editor reveals the files with a plain text file format, the code editor features syntax highlighting for one’s .PHP or .JS files, and then the WYSIWYG editor makes it possible to preview your changes when they appear online. Furthermore, all changes you come up with and save are going to be demonstrated straight away on the web, so it’s possible to review them inside your browser and return to create further modifications, if unhappy.

It is not necessary to download your files, to change them in your machine and then to re–upload them into your website hosting account. All the editors are available via the buttons near the top of the file table or through the right–click contextual menus.

Each of the files within your website hosting account are neatly arranged into folders. Every host features its own main directory, which uses the file hierarchy that you’ve selected. In this way, it is really an easy task to control all of your current hosts in one location without the chance of becoming lost or puzzled.

By default, you will see each of the hosts conveniently indexed in a table and if you click once over a given host, you will see each of the sub–folders and files related to it. By clicking two times, you will go to a page which is focused entirely on that host only. A further way to load the folder related to a given host and also to work with it solely, is to use the drop–down menu at the top of the primary File Manager file table.

Most online File Managers are sluggish and hard to work with. They provide constrained options and generally aren’t really user–friendly. We aim to improve that by means of the GalantHost File Manager. It is made to be intuitive and to look like an item you are already well aware of – the File Manager on your personal computer system.

All of its capabilities, the drag’n’drop file upload options, the right–click context menus, the inbuilt file editors, etc. are available for a single reason – to help make maintaining your web site(s) more convenient.

With the GalantHost File Manager, you’re able to pick various files or folders like you do on your PC. Just keep pressed the Control (Command for Apple’s Mac OS) key and then click the required files/folders. In case you’d like, to pick a lot of files/folders at the same time, simply click one file/folder, hold down the Shift key and then click any other file or folder.

Having once selected all the files that you need, you can actually drag them into a specified directory, or use the right–click context menu to find out a summary of the accessible activities.

If you need to password–protect a directory within your web site, you will have to create an .htaccess file by yourself. However, this can be time–demanding and complex if you aren’t a specialist in hosting. Thanks to the File Manager, you may create a password–protected folder and conceal its items from the standard users with only a few mouse–clicks.

Everything you should do is right–click a directory, pick Password Protection and then choose the Add option. After that just state a login name together with a pass word. No further setup is needed and there’s no need to address an .htaccess file. Our system will handle every thing on your behalf.