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Jon White - 10/17/2013 9:40:54 AM
   
Using Kentico as a public FTP portal
Hi all,

I'm interested as to whether Kentico could be used as a public FTP portal on a front-facing website (not intranet)?

I know the media gallery can allow for anyone to upload images/download them and this is halfway to what i need, however I'd like for each uploader to be able to create their own folder to input their files. Is this possible? I know i can create them from the backend but can it be setup so any user can create a new folder?

We already have a public FTP but it is a java application, I just wandered if Kentico could replace this, and in turn create something with better navigation/filters. Does anyone have any opinions/experience?

Thanks in advance

Jon

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kentico_filipl - 10/20/2013 6:01:43 AM
   
RE:Using Kentico as a public FTP portal
Hi Jon,

Kentico CMS does not have any built-in modules designed for this purpose. The closest out-of-the-box feature to FTP server I can think of is Contribution list web part. However, it will be necessary to make quite extensive customizations to make it look like a real FTP server.

Another approach could be creating folders in content tree for every user and giving access to this folder only for him and denying it for everyone else. This could be set by administrator through Properties -> Security tab. However, it is still just something to make Kentico CMS look like an FTP server.

Although there are some ways using which you could set up a working FTP server like the ones I mentioned, a well-rounded server would require developing a custom module.

Best regards,
Filip Ligac

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Jason - 10/21/2013 10:29:53 AM
   
RE:Using Kentico as a public FTP portal
I have written a tutorial on a similar thing. I actually use the same thing as Part of the Kentico Site I work on.

I wrote up a post about this on my Blog.
It does require a $599 ASP.NET Control however. The difference in using this in Kentico as opposed to my demo APP which is just a standard ASP project is that you would use the Kentico Membership API to login useres etc.

http://supersix4.com/wp/asp-net-file-manager-using-fileultimate/

Hopefully it can help you.