FileZ provides a Web service to upload and manage files you want to share through a web interface and unique URLs (http). It was inspired by the perl/mod_perl application filex.

FileZ was created by the Avignon University and is developed by people like you.

Please join us and report your issues, edit our wiki, translate, fork and commit your code!

Features

• PHP/Mysql or PHP/Sqlite with the Limonade PHP Framework
• Several authentication scheme : CAS+LDAP, LDAP only, BDD.
• short URL (ex: filez.univ-avignon.fr/x42ni1)
• Upload progress bar (with non obstructive javascript)
• Install form & admin backend
• i18n
• Password protected files
• Email notifications
• CRON task
• Quota

More informations on the wiki and at http://gpl.univ-avignon.fr/filez.

Requirement

• Apache configured with “mod_rewrite” and the “AllowOverride” of your virtual host set to “FileInfo Options” or “All” (important !) a2enmod rewrite && apache2ctl restart

• To display a progress bar during the upload process you will need one of the following package installed on your system :

  • APC

    apt-get install php-apc
    echo "apc.rfc1867 = On"   >> /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/apc.ini
    apache2ctl restart
    

  • PECL::UploadProgress

    apt-get install php5-dev
    pecl install uploadprogress
    echo "extension = uploadprogress.so" >> /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/uploadprogress.ini
    apache2ctl restart
    

• You will need php5-curl to be able to authenticate against a CAS server

• You will need php5-ldap to be able to identicate with a LDAP server

Installation

• Download FileZ sources :

  • from Git

    git clone git://github.com/FileZ/FileZ.git filez_web_root
    

  • from SVN

    svn checkout http://svn.github.com/FileZ/FileZ.git filez_web_root
    

  • from a package

    tar -xvvf filez-2.0.tar.gz
    cp filez-2.0/* filez_web_root
    

• Open your web browser on your FileZ web root and run the installation. Check the FAQ on our wiki.

• Enjoy!