Web Based File Management with PHP and Tiny File Manager

#PHP #ApacheHTTPD #TinyFileManager

Full steps can be found at https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials/0046.html

In this quick video learn how to setup a web based file manager on an Apache webserver with PHP.

Disclaimer: This is a terrible idea on a publicly accessible server without thoroughly thinking through the security configuration and auditing, but can be a very handy tool for development servers or personal web servers that aren't available outside the local network.

Download and Setup Tiny File Manager

1. Download Tiny File Manager https://github.com/prasathmani/tinyfilemanager/releases
2. Extract the Tiny File Manager files
3. Copy TinyFileManager.php to Apache install directory/htdocs/filemanager
4. Rename TinyFileManager.php to index.php
5. Edit index.php in a text editor
6. Find $use_auth and set the value to false
7. Save
8. Open a web browser and navigate to https://dnsorip-/filemanager/dnsorip-

Customizing Root Location and Authentication

1. Optionally, Edit Apache install directory/htdocs/filemanager/index.php

2. Find $root_path and edit the value to limit the scope of the file manager

3. Save index.php

4. Navigate to the Apache install directory/conf in Explorer

5. Edit httpd.conf in a text editor

6. Find the authnz_ldap_module and make sure it is enabled by removing the # at the start of the line LoadModuleauthnz_ldap_modulemodules/mod_authnz_ldap.so

7. Find the ldap_module and make sure it is enabled by removing the # at the start of the line LoadModuleldap_modulemodules/mod_ldap.so

8. Create a Location block to enable LDAP authentication for the specified directory Location/filemanager- #BasicauthenticationwithLDAPagainstMSAD AuthTypeBasic AuthBasicProviderldap

   #AuthLDAPURLspecifiestheLDAPserverIP,port,baseDN,scopeandfilter #usingthisformat:ldap://host:port/basedn?attribute?scope?filter AuthLDAPURL"ldap://i12bretro.local:389/DC=i12bretro,DC=local?sAMAccountName?sub?(objectClass=user)"NONE #TheLDAPbindusernameandpassword AuthLDAPBindDN"readonly_svc@i12bretro.local" AuthLDAPBindPassword"Read0nly!!" LDAPReferralsOff AuthUserFile/dev/null

   AuthName"RestrictedArea[i12bretro.local]" #toauthenticateadomaingroup,specifythefullDN AuthLDAPGroupAttributeIsDNon requireldap-groupCN=WebAuthAccess,CN=Users,DC=i12bretro,DC=local /Location-

9. Save httpd.conf

10. Restart ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEX2xenQENc