Looking for FTP server software with an HTTP interface.

January 9, 2008 1:07 PM

I'm looking for FTP server software that, in addition to standard features like email notification and user management, can serve files to a web page rather than a ratty looking list of filenames in a browser window. If you have any experience with such a beast, I'd appreciate your recommendations.

I need FTP capability (upload and download) from my server. I'd like the FTP server to notify me when files are uploaded to, or downloaded from the server. I'd like the server to home-folder the users so that they only see files located in their home folder. All of these are standard features in any reasonable FTP server software app. But...
This is a customer-facing interface for a sound studio. Some clients use FTP client software to connect, but most don't - they're using IE (I know, but FTP is often closed off to firewalls).

So, the IE interface for FTP is awful. I want a nice looking interface with some file management capability for the client - they should be able to control this interface - sort the list, etc - and manage these files through the browser. And it should support HTTP as a transfer method, along with FTP.

This will run on a Windows 2003 server.

If you have any recommendations for this kind of software I'd appreciate any direction you can offer.

Thanks!

posted by disclaimer to computers & internet (4 comments total)

Net2FTP is webbased ftp.
posted by damn dirty ape at 1:23 PM on January 9, 2008

I know this doesn't answer your question, but using FTP for uploading is a very bad idea. Consider using anything else.
posted by bh at 5:24 PM on January 9, 2008

At first I thought that Globalscape Secure FTP Server might be what you're after. See screenshot on linked page. Supports FTP and HTTP/HTTPS transfers. However, I drilled down and it looks like the HTTP file display interface isn't exactly spruced up, although there is a new field where you can upload a file via HTTP.
posted by tra at 11:44 AM on January 10, 2008

Here's another quite interesting package. Check out the features
HFS - HTTP File Server
posted by tra at 8:48 AM on January 13, 2008