This is not to be confused with the GenieGate upload example this script is a simple upload tool to be used anywhere, with or without GenieGate.
Ever needed to upload a file to a remote server? Perhaps you didn't need anything special or advanced, perhaps you didn't want to install a whole application suite with features you didn't really need. Maybe just a simple area for your clients or staff to share documents. Maybe you just need a simple way to upload files to your home server.
Perhaps you require your clients or staff to send confidential documents. In this case, email may not be a suitable choice. (well, unless your client has PGP installed) If you have an SSL certificate, this script will help you accomplish this.
Set up is straight forward, 3 simple steps.
If you're experienced with installing CGI scripts. (you understand file permissions) you could easily install this script in less time then it takes to read the instructions.
Set configuration variables. You can specify multiple upload areas if you wish.
It has no password protection built in, instead it relies on your web server configuration. (GenieGate supports apache style password files if you require membership management, for example, you can limit uploads to people in the "admin" group)
This step depends on your server configuration. You may
need to set the upload areas to a permission of
777.
Pipes are a completely optional feature, by default they are turned off. Their utility is in providing a quick way to process data with shell commands. (HINT: use multiple areas to provide access to different options and commands)
If you desire, you can have files "uploaded" into a unix command instead of a directory. In this case, you just make the directory a pipe.
The uploaded file is piped into the commands standard input. Setting this up is only marginally more difficult than a simple upload directory. This feature provides convenient web access to unix commands.
When using a pipe, the environment variables WANT_FILENAME and
REMOTE_FILENAME are made available to the program. (You can
use these in shell scripts, if you want) WANT_FILENAME is the
name (sans non-safe characters) the user wanted to use for a filename.
REMOTE_FILENAME is the name of the file as reported by their
browser.
It is NOT password protected! this means it is up to you to configure apache to allow authentication. GenieGate supports apache style password protection if you need an automated way.
You should take greate care in how you use this, if you permit anyone to upload PHP files or other executable content, you do not want those same php files to be web accessible or your site will become compromised.
The reason for this is to allow you to simply fit this script in with an existing web site.
Download BasicUpload, version 1.0.1
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