Replacement for QuiXplorer

[raulfg3]

Because develop of QuiXplorer is dead from 2004 http://quixplorer.sourceforge.net/

I suggest use eXtplorer instead: http://extplorer.net/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/extplor ... =directory

some other suggest are welcome.

PD: and a howto install by hand to test it, are wellcome too.

[alexey123]

This is best from Web file managers, with symbol highlighting , but I tried to attach - not working
Also please see on filesizes - http://sourceforge.net/projects/extplor ... r%202.1.0/ 2MB archived.
Non real to embedd into nas image

Better way is webnight commander, just add edit file for it

[ChriZathens]

Webnight commander is very small but also with limited abilities...
A complete file manager like eXtplorer is going to be more useful to everyone, I believe..
And about 5MB extracted size is not large nowadays... 4GB usb sticks are used as key rings now ..
EDIT: PHPFileNavigator is also a good alternative and small in size

[alexey123]

And about 5MB extracted size is not large nowadays... 4GB usb sticks are used as key rings now ..

If you run embedded version NAS4free, you need add ramdisk size. Many users not have more 512M ram.

[lasdem]

Well I can only speak for me, but I have 2GB RAM.
My bigger fear is that it won't fit on my internal 256MB flash anymore.

[ChriZathens]

And about 5MB extracted size is not large nowadays... 4GB usb sticks are used as key rings now ..

If you run embedded version NAS4free, you need add ramdisk size. Many users not have more 512M ram.

I agree with you... but nevertheless if a new file manager is going to be added, it must must be able to perform various file manager actions:
touch, copy, move, edit, download, upload, view, search etc..
A very small but without many abilities file manager would be worthless IMHO...

[kernow]

Is there one that can just run from the webroot with no installation into the embedded image as such? I don't mind quixplorer but yeah it can be pretty annoying sometimes.

extplorer doesn't seem to work here, it just comes up with a load of php errors.

Warning: date(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected the timezone 'UTC' for now, but please set date.timezone to select your timezone. in /mnt/data/www/extplorer/libraries/standalone.php on line 82 Strict Standards: Non-static method extArchive::extract() should not be called statically in /mnt/data/www/extplorer/libraries/standalone.php on line 386 Strict Standards: Non-static method extFile::getExt() should not be called statically in /mnt/data/www/extplorer/libraries/Archive/archive.php on line 36 Strict Standards: Non-static method extFile::stripExt() should not be called statically in /mnt/data/www/extplorer/libraries/Archive/archive.php on line 38 Strict Standards: Non-static method extFile::getExt() should not be called statically in /mnt/data/www/extplorer/libraries/Archive/archive.php on line 38

[alexey123]

OK, Extplorer begin to work
Need add libreries to php as for OwnCloud

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# pkg_add -r php5
pkg_add -r php5-extensions
pkg_add -r php5-xmlrpc
pkg_add -r php5-gettext
pkg_add -r php5-mcrypt
pkg_add -r php5-mbstring
pkg_add -r php5-zip
pkg_add -r php5-gd

UPD Need also add zlib

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pkg_add -r php5-zlib

Check sessions

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pkg-add -r php5-session

Repair web gui

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# mv /usr/local/bin/php /usr/local/bin/php-cli
# cp /usr/local/bin/php-cgi /usr/local/bin/php

My /usr/local/etc/php/extension.ini content now

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extension=zip.so
extension=session.so
extension=zlib.so
extension=xmlwriter.so
extension=xml.so
extension=tokenizer.so
extension=sqlite3.so
extension=simplexml.so
extension=sqlite.so
extension=posix.so
extension=pdo.so
extension=pdo_sqlite.so
extension=json.so
extension=iconv.so
extension=hash.so
extension=filter.so
extension=dom.so
extension=xmlreader.so
extension=ctype.so
extension=phar.so
extension=xmlrpc.so
extension=gettext.so
extension=mcrypt.so
extension=gd.so

For correct timezone setting add to /usr/local/etc/php.ini line

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date.timezone = "America/New_York"

or another valid location

[ChriZathens]

I tried to install it in a web server of mine (not on my NAS), but could not even see the login page... Just a page with its logo with "Login" in page header, but no login form was shown...
The instructions did not help...
I will look into it again...

[alexey123]

As for me this work.
But how many packages installed!!!
I attach list packages
My php.ini

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magic_quotes_gpc = off
magic_quotes_runtime = off
max_execution_time = 0
max_input_time = 180
register_argc_argv = off
file_uploads = on
upload_tmp_dir = /var/tmp/ftmp
upload_max_filesize = 256M
post_max_size = 256M
html_errors = off
include_path = ".:/etc/inc:/usr/local/www"
session.gc_maxlifetime = 180
session.save_path = /tmp
session.serialize_handler = php
date.timezone = "America/New_York"

[ChriZathens]

I managed to make it work, too..
It needed a chown to webserver in order to work...
I had no experience with it - I am checking it now...
One weak thing I noticed : search function only works in the current directory.. I selected the root directory and entered a search term, having the "subdirs" button clicked, but I got no results...
If entering the directory I found 5 results... that is not very good...
But besides this, eXtplorer looks very modern and has all the things someone would need from a file manager...

[kernow]

Hmm, I changed the permissions for www user too, no luck here.

[apollo567]

I support the Idea to replace Quixexplorer with a more powerful alternative !!!

[kernow]

To be honest, I'm surprised the file manager has been chosen as something to upgrade when you have firefly instead of forked-daapd, fuppes instead of minidnla, etc etc. So what if it's unsupported anymore? It still works, unlike the other two things I've mentioned. Concentrate on those!

[ChriZathens]

I continued testing and realized another problem with extplorer: In explorer mode there are minimum things I can do. That's because extplorer user has no rights to manage the files..
The user I created in extplorer has the same username and pass as the linux user who owns the files, but no joy (naturally)
chowning the extplorer files to that user did not help either...
I can only manage files in ftp mode if I login as the user who owns the files. But even if I do that, those files are not on the user's home directory, but extplorer logins in user's home dir and a symbolic link does no good...
There must be a way to join system users into extplorer users in order for this to work as it should..
@alexey: since I did not do the installation in my NAS, but you did, how did it go regarding those problems? Is it integrated somehow or you can only work in ftp mode, too?
@kernow: I can't say that you are wrong.. lol... But it is not a bad thing to throw ideas... Besides that, fuppes already has a replacement - minidlna -. I mean that if, for example, devs decide to remove fuppes and use minidlna instead, the usage of minidlna is already discussed, accepted and needs no more experiments..
In this case (file manager) a commonly accepted alternative is yet to be found..

P.S.: BTW, I believe that N4F should not stay on Freenas steps.. It must grow its own identity... The base system should of course be the same, but the additional plugins/services need to be refreshed a bit... A lot of them should be replaced with better ones, (like firefly, fuppes must be replaced with better ones, as you said, or like quixplorer must be replaced with something better, or even like transmission with something better, like rtorrent/rutorrent I proposed in the past). Of course this can happen slowly and one at a time, but my dream for N4F is in the future to be a bit different and better product than Freenas 0.7.x and not (to the eyes of someone who does not know what lies underneath the hood, ) a clone of Freenas..

[alexey123]

@alexey: since I did not do the installation in my NAS, but you did, how did it go regarding those problems? Is it integrated somehow or you can only work in ftp mode, too?

I install it on nas-webserver.
I think, Extplorer is best from www-editors, it can be use for edit web page on server, but as system it not good, because as you rightly said the problem of identifying users exist and need to rewrite the script, and need additional space of ram.
QuiXplorer work as file manager, but not work as editor. It add symbol in end-of-line, as windows notepad.

[whren]

Why not Ajaxplorer (around 20mb once extracted) ?

I used it on freenas, ovm and now nas4free and i'm really happy with it.

[pjvaliant]

Hi,
I try to replace quiXplorer with ajaexplorer or eXtplorer.
I've placed my new dirs in www but I can't integrate / replace WEBGUI Filemanager link.

If i launch by broweser http://nas/explorer/index.php the filemanager go

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