Pitchfork is a project mainly written in PHP and JAVASCRIPT, it's free.
Envisaged as ls for the web, Pitchfork is a free tool for putting files on a website or intranet. Includes HTTP file-browser; basic search and access control and zip file creation. Runs on Linux/Unix.
Hi all! This is the first public version of Pitchfork. Try it out - let me know what you think. Yes, it's a little messy, there are some things I did wrong and it hasn't really been through the formal design process but if you find it useful - consider helping extend it.
I can't be bothered with all that licensing stuff, basically whatever you want to do with it, that's fine. However I should point out that the Pitchfork logo is copywritten to me (so you should not use it to promote your own services without my permission) and you should distribute the source code with it (which in practical terms means posting a link to this repository for your user to follow.)
On to installation information - Pitchfork needs essentially three things: 1) A place for the PHP scripts to go; 2) A place for the files you're serving to go and 3) A "secret" directory of your choosing (preferably not accessible to the web) to store things. I recommend that if you want to use the "Compressed Download" option that you should install the zip command line program. Ooh, and don't forget to make your secret directory writeable (this has stung me in the tail, producing zip files that are filled with errors.) Once you have these things, simply modify the pitchfork-configuration-user.php file in the configuration directory, and you'll be good to go. Oh yes, and you will probably need to allow PHP to execute shell commands.
Pitchfork does not run on Windows (as the command line is different - you might be able to get it running under Cygwin or something) and is quite sensitive to the distribution that you're using (it has been tested on run on OpenSUSE). If something doesn't work - by all means tell me about it and I'll see what I can do.
Richard Townsend [email protected]