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This is a known issue for domain owner users. It works for root, and it took me a little while to figure out where people were seeing it since no one specified that it happened for domain owner users! ;-)
It'll be fixed in Virtualmin 6.01 coming in another day or two.
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Thanks. Onwards and upwards. Maybe another function we do not need?? SFTP in using Winscp.
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This is a new feature that replaces the old website builder that was in Virtualmin Pro (though we still seem to have some folks who want that old site builder to come back). We'll be adding a WYSIWYG HTML editor to File Manager in the coming weeks, which will make the Edit Web Content link a little more newbie-friendly.
For some users SFTP or FTPS or ssh or whatever is more technical than they want to deal with, and that's OK.
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Im a windows educated user...for me visualising is important. I navigate my way around and remember based on what i see in filemanagers. For me filemanager is much faster and far more capable than filezilla, but also i feel like i have more authority and control when using a control panels own interface for browsing files. I know there is debate on this amongst other cpanel developers where they simply will not develop one (ISPConfig comes to mind). The problem is that users ultimately are not interested in stuffing around with 3rd party workaround solutions. Windows has produced a generation of us users who want one package that does both. Whmcpanel has file manager...to go away from that model ensures that webhosts who use virtualmin will loose clients to whmcpanel hosts.
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Yeah, I'm actually really impressed with the File Manager these days. RealGecko and Ilia have done a phenomenal job with it. It's really a beautiful tool...it's gotten so good that even I use it, and I've never used graphical tools for file management on servers...I have always been an ssh/scp/rsync kinda user.
But, File Manager these days is fast enough, has a capable enough text editor, and has all the functionality I need...sometimes if I've already got a Webmin window open, I'll use the file manager instead of logging in with ssh to do file tasks. So...I'm not the target user, but I love what the folks working on it have done with it. It has never been a big focus of ours (at least not in many years...Jamie worked really hard on the original Java File Manager, but it didn't see much active work over the years once it did everything he wanted it to do), but now that it's there, I'm really proud of it (or proud of the folks who built it, since I did very little of the work on it and can't take any of the credit).
I haven't looked at a cPanel installation in many years, but I'd be shocked if their file manager is as good as what we're shipping today (and, I'd like to know if it is...because I wanna beat'em).
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agreed Joe, I am a very low level user of webhosting servers. Most of what i do has been building websites and running them on 3rd party managed resources. In the past i have tended to focus mainly on building, not servers...that is now something i am really working hard at changing (hence all of my posts about google cloud compute). I am striking lots of hurdles along the way, its a steep learning curve. Because of that, i need some familiarity...a file manager really helps a lot. In having said that, my biggest failing has also been the windows gui interface...i have not learned the command shell way.
Anyway, i look forward to the virtualmin update resolving this issue.
Can i also add, i also have another instance i setup a couple of weeks ago in which i had installed whmcs and another personal virtual server, i dont remember either of them doing this?
first time i noticed this is on the new whmcs instance, running virtualmin minimal install, i setup 2 days ago. Perhaps i hadnt accessed the filemanager using anything other than root user on that instance? (i am not sure)
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It's not a new problem; it's always been there, as long as that link has been in the menu. But, we just added it in the 5.99 release, so the only way to navigate to File Manager in the past was from the Webmin menu, by default (it could also be added to the Virtualmin menu, I think, but not linking directly to
public_html). The link for root was fixed in 6.00, and the link for domain owners will be fixed in 6.01.--
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