How to Install AnyClient Enterprise

▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ ██ ██ █▌ - JSCAPE ANYCLIENT ENTERPRISE - WEB BASED FTP CLIENT - █▌ █▌ FORMERLY SECURE FTP APPLET █▌ █ ▐▌ █ JSCAPE's AnyClient Enterprise is another wonderful web based FTP client ▐▌ █ that supports Auth SSL and TLS. I set this up for my friend that can't ▐▌ █ access FTP servers on his work box because of the firewall. As long as it ▐▌ █ is installed on a domain and URL path that isn't in the the firewall's ban ▐▌ █ list it will work if they have the latest Java-Plugin installed. ▐▌ █ AnyClient Enterprise demo here. Note that this doesn't act as a proxy; it ▐▌ █ will still show your own IP connected to the FTP, not the website's IP. ▐▌ █ ▐▌ █ Jscape's platform independent AnyClient Enterprise is fully functional ▐▌ █ shareware (for non-commericial use); only a small red text banner is ▐▌ █ placed on the applet (without license). Click image for actual size: ▐▌ █ ▐▌

AnyClient Enterprise, click for actual size

█ ▐▌ █ PROS, NOTES ▐▌ █ PREREQUISITES ▐▌ █ INSTALLATION WINDOWS XAMPP OR A WEB SERVER WITHOUT SHELL ACCESS ▐▌ █ INSTALLATION UNIX ▐▌ █ SETTINGS AND ADDITIONAL OPTIONS ▐▌ █ CONS, WISH LIST AND NOTES ▐▌ █ ▐▌ █ ___________..___________ ▐▌ █ ▐▌ █ PROS: Out of the box ready; unpack it, put it on your web server. There ▐▌ █ are a number of options that you can customize by simply adding them to a ▐▌ █ text file and refresh the web page to view changes. Such as add or remove ▐▌ █ Site Manager, proxy, skip list, and change the interface colors. It ▐▌ █ supports multiple files and directory upload and download which you can ▐▌ █ randomly select (in current directory), can resume, stay logged in during ▐▌ █ session, passwords are stored encrypted, PGP capable, etc. ▐▌ █ ▐▌ █ NOTES: ▐▌ █ 1. You do not need to have a web server to use this. Just open index.html ▐▌ █ in a browser that you have Java enabled and it's ready for you to use on ▐▌ █ your computer. ▐▌ █ ▐▌ █ 2. The first time you connect to a site it will create 'site.xml' in ▐▌ █ Users Documents - Win XP: 'C:\Documents and Settings\User', Win 7: ▐▌ █ 'C:\Users\User'. This file contains the saved sites information with your ▐▌ █ password encrypted. It will read off your own site.xml even if you go to ▐▌ █ different server that has AnyClient Enterprise installed. There is an ▐▌ █ option for the admin to state a valid URL for the site.xml file to load ▐▌ █ from, for example: siteUrl = http://mewbies.com/site.xml ▐▌ █ ▐▌ █ 3. Anyone who opens 'AnyClient Enterprise' web page on the same computer ▐▌ █ will have listed in the Site Manager all of your sites and be able to ▐▌ █ connect to them. So be sure you move 'site.xml' to a safe place when not ▐▌ █ using. ▐▌ █ ▐▌ █ ___________..___________ ▐▌ █ ▐▌ █ PREREQUISITES: ▐▌ █ `````````````` ▐▌ █ Minimum Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 7+ that includes the Java Plugin. ▐▌ █ Find the latest version here,; select the button 'JRE Download' ▐▌ █ ▐▌ █ ___________..___________ ▐▌ █ ▐▌ █ INSTALLATION WINDOWS XAMPP OR A WEB SERVER WITHOUT SHELL ACCESS: ▐▌ █ ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` ▐▌ █ 1. Download AnyClient Enterprise's zip here. ▐▌ █ ▐▌ █ 2. Create a directory on your web server to unzip it to, like 123 - don't ▐▌ █ name the directory any word that might be in your user's firewall's ban ▐▌ █ word list. For example mine is here: D:\xampp\htdocs\123\ ▐▌ █ ▐▌ █ 3. Unzip the contents of anyclient-enterprise.zip. Copy all contents in ▐▌ █ the extracted directory 'web' to your new directory. ▐▌ █ If you are uploading to a web server; upload using Binary mode. ▐▌ █ ▐▌ █ 4. Finished :D. Test it by going to for example http://yoursite.com/123/ ▐▌ █ The first time you load the page or connect to a server you'll be prompted ▐▌ █ to accept a certificate; select 'Accept and Save'. ▐▌ █ ▐▌ █ 5. To edit the settings, follow the same settings in 'SETTINGS AND ▐▌ █ ADDITIONAL OPTIONS' below. ▐▌ █ ▐▌ █ ___________..___________ ▐▌ █ ▐▌ █ INSTALLATION UNIX: (window users skip to settings below) ▐▌ █ `````````````````` ▐▌ █ For the example below change the paths to your own installed path. I'll ▐▌ █ create a directory named 123 to run AnyClient Enterprise from. Do not ▐▌ █ name the directory a name that could be on your user's firewall's ban word ▐▌ █ list. ▐▌ █ mkdir jscape && cd jscape ▐▌ █ wget http://files.jscape.com/anyclient-enterprise/pub/anyclient-enterprise.tar.gz █ tar xvzf anyclient-enterprise.tar.gz ▐▌ █ cd web ▐▌ █ su ▐▌ █ mkdir /var/www/123 ▐▌ █ cp * -r /var/www/123 ▐▌ █ exit ▐▌ █ ▐▌ █ Finished :D. Test it be going to for example http://yoursite.com/123/ ▐▌ █ The first time you load the page or connect to a server you'll be prompted ▐▌ █ to accept a certificate; select 'Accept and Save'. ▐▌ █ ▐▌ █ ___________..___________ ▐▌ █ ▐▌ █ SETTINGS AND ADDITIONAL OPTIONS: ▐▌ █ ```````````````````````````````` ▐▌ █ AnyClient Enterprise User Guide is here. It covers many configurable ▐▌ █ options. Below is an example for you to quickly test with; copy and paste ▐▌ █ the entire chunk of text into the params.txt, save changes and refresh ▐▌ █ AnyClient Enterprise's index.html page to view the changes: ▐▌

changeSites = true showSiteManager = true enableSftpPublicKeyAuthentication = true tablesHeight = 500 connectionType = ftps showProxy = true retryLimit = 2 enableCompression = true showSftpAuth = true showHiddenFiles = true helpUrl = http://mewbies.com/how_to_install_jscape_anyclient_enterprise_web_based_ftp_ssl_client.htm theme = bedouin bgColor = B4BCBE textColor = 000000 dirColor = A6A6A6 dirTextColor = 000000 buttonTextColor = FF0000 appFont = Lucida Console 11 siteUrl = http://mewbies.com/site.xml

█ The Help button is now pointing to this tutorial and site.xml will load ▐▌ █ from mewbies.com. It will look like this, click for actual size: ▐▌

█ ▐▌ █ SITE.XML: ▐▌ █ If you specify a URL for the site.xml, users can still connect to other ▐▌ █ sites and add sites, but the added sites are only valid until they reload ▐▌ █ the web page. ▐▌ █ ▐▌ █ THEMES: ▐▌ █ There are four themes to select from. A theme changes the color of the ▐▌ █ scroll bar and highlight color: ▐▌ █ acid: glossy olive with pale olive highlight ▐▌ █ bedouin: slate gray with butterscotch highlight ▐▌ █ glass: glossy sky-blue with sky-blue highlight ▐▌ █ system: slate blue with butterscotch highlight (default) ▐▌ █ ▐▌ █ If you want to add settings to the index.html instead, the same options ▐▌ █ must be stated twice; once in the param tag area and again in an embed ▐▌ █ tag area. Here is an example how, my changes are in red: ▐▌

<object width="800" height="600" classid="clsid:CAFEEFAC-0016-0000-FFFF-ABCDEFFEDCBA" codebase="http://java.sun.com/update/1.6.0/jinstall-6-windows-i586.cab#Version=6,0,0,0"> <param name="code" value="com.jscape.ftpapplet.FtpApplet.class"> <param name="archive" value="anyclient-enterprise.jar"> <param name="scriptable" value="false"> <param name="enableSftpPublicKeyAuthentication" value="true"> <param name="connectionType" value="ftps"> <param name="showProxy" value="true"> <comment> <embed type="application/x-java-applet;version=1.6" \ code="com.jscape.ftpapplet.FtpApplet.class" \ archive="anyclient-enterprise.jar" \ name="anyclient-enterprise" \ width="800" \ height="600" \ scriptable="false" \ enableSftpPublicKeyAuthentication="true" \ tablesHeight="500" \ connectionType="ftps" \ showProxy="true" \ pluginspage = "http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/index.html#download"> <noembed> </noembed> </embed> </comment> </object> </CENTER>

█ ▐▌ █ ___________..___________ ▐▌ █ ▐▌ █ CONS, WISH LIST AND NOTES v8.4.1.88: ▐▌ █ ```````````````````````````````````` ▐▌ █ 1. The site manager file 'site.xml' on a local install can only be read ▐▌ █ from User's Documents - wish for ability to to point to a local directory ▐▌ █ so that it is more portable. ▐▌ █ 2. Wish for options to send server commands, decompress files, enter an ▐▌ █ ident setting and be able to paste in full FTP URL and it auto fills the ▐▌ █ correct boxes i.e. ftp://anonymous:anonymous@ftp.whatever.com:21 ▐▌ █ 3. Use different icons for different file types. Allow user to customize ▐▌ █ those in parameters. ▐▌ █ 4. User Guide to be included in the package or offer it as a separate ▐▌ █ download so that one can point the Help button to it. ▐▌ █ 5. Ability to queue (it is a wish list :p). ▐▌ █ 6. Would be great if it had FXP capabilities; local window on the left ▐▌ █ could be used as another site to connect to so that one could transfer ▐▌ █ files from one server to another :D. ▐▌ █ 7. Though I have 'showHiddenFiles = true' it still did not show dot files ▐▌ █ such as .message. If a directory contained such a file I was unable to ▐▌ █ delete it. ▐▌ █ 8. SSLv3 sites are very slow and failed transfers a number of times (debug ▐▌ █ didn't give reason why) if the directory had more than one file it; BUT I ▐▌ █ do have a lousy connection. ▐▌ █ 9. If you have been testing on your local box and you try to load ▐▌ █ AnyClient Enterprise from the web and it only it doesn't load the applet; ▐▌ █ clear your cache, rename your local site.xml and rename your local ▐▌ █ directory containing the applet. Still doesn't work - open the web page in ▐▌ █ a different browser. ▐▌ █ 10. If you select black for background color (bgColor = 000000) you won't ▐▌ █ be able to view most of the text of the Site Manager window or the Help ▐▌ █ window as the text color there doesn't change. ▐▌ █ ▐▌ █ //---------------------------------------------------------------------- ▐▌ █ ▐▌ █ If you find mistakes, have suggestions, and or questions please post at ▐▌ █ mewbies forum HERE - thank you. ▐▌ █ ▐▌ █ Last update on 09 Mar '14 ▐▌ █ ▐▌ █▌ █▌ █▌ - mewbies.com - █▌ █▌ █▌ ██▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄██