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Topic: Lightweight web based file browser for OpenWRT

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Hello,

I'm thinking of having web based file explorer on my travel router.
So far I have been looking into direction of ownCloud, but that seems like overkill and is very likely to consume all the CPU. What I need is to be able to do simple operations like copy/delete files or folders via web interface.

Any recommendations?

Thanks in advance!

We have what you are looking for. However its part of the travel router and not available as a package.

http://customrouter.com/usb.html

There is a video there. It shows the HTML file explorer interface of the travel router.

StratoSnn wrote:

Hello,

I'm thinking of having web based file explorer on my travel router.
So far I have been looking into direction of ownCloud, but that seems like overkill and is very likely to consume all the CPU. What I need is to be able to do simple operations like copy/delete files or folders via web interface.

Any recommendations?

Thanks in advance!

uHTTPd which comes with LuCI contains a file file browser. Please see this post for details.

How about an FTP server like vsftpd on the server side, and a browser based FTP client such as FireFTP on the client side?  Light where you need it, and a bit heavier where you don't care.

Or you could look into moving LUCI to lighttpd then use webdav

(Last edited by RoutyMcRouter on 18 Apr 2016, 03:18)

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