Software Engineer
I build web applications and share what I learn along the way.
Filoby turns any folder on your web hosting into a modern, full-featured file manager. Upload one PHP file, open it in your browser, and a one-minute wizard sets everything up. From then on you can browse, upload, edit, preview, search and share everything on your server, from any device, wherever you are.
There is no database to create: settings, users and logs live in a small data folder that Filoby manages by itself. There is no composer install, no node, no build step, and no config file to hand-edit. And because it runs on your own hosting, your files never pass through anyone else's cloud, and there is no monthly fee.
The live demo further down this page is the complete application running on real files, with nothing to sign up for. Create folders, edit code, upload images, delete things - and press Reset when you are done.
During setup you pick the first folder Filoby manages, and you can add more root folders at any time from the admin panel: a client uploads directory, a backups folder, the public folder of another site on the same server. Every root you add appears in the sidebar, and search covers all of them at once.
Just as important is what stays out of reach. Nobody can browse outside the roots you allow, each user can be limited to their own home folder, and per-folder permissions decide exactly who can see, change or delete what.
Switch between a dense list for serious work, a grid for a quick overview, a photo-friendly mosaic, and Miller columns for deep folder trees. Sort by name, size, type or date - Filoby remembers your choice for every folder. Pin your favourite folders, jump back to recent ones from the sidebar, and show or hide dotfiles with a click.
Drag and drop files of any size. Uploads are chunked and resumable, so a dropped connection carries on where it left off instead of starting over. Upload whole folders, follow the progress of every file, and keep working while they run. Moving, copying, renaming, cut and paste between folders, and bulk actions across large selections all work the way you would hope.
A genuine code editor is built in, with syntax highlighting for dozens of languages, find and replace, a split view, and drafts that survive if you navigate away. Preview images, video, audio, PDFs and Markdown right where they are. Open spreadsheets (xlsx, csv, ods) in an editable grid and save straight back. Preview Word documents without leaving the page. The image viewer is a proper gallery, with zoom, pan, swipe and a slideshow.
Search every root folder at once by filename, or press Shift+Enter to search inside file contents when you cannot remember what something was called. Every result shows where it lives and takes you straight there. Prefer the keyboard? Ctrl+K opens a command palette that jumps anywhere.
Zip any selection and unzip in place. Better still, browse inside an archive and pull out the one file you need without extracting the rest.
Create a private link to any file or folder, set an expiry date, add a password, and revoke it whenever you like. The recipient sees a clean download page and nothing else: no account required, and no access to anything you did not share.
Give people their own logins, assign roles, and use per-folder permissions to decide who reaches what. A client can have one folder and never know the rest exists. A contractor can be read-only. Set storage quotas, review active sessions, protect accounts with two-factor authentication, and follow everything in the audit log.
Deleted files land in a trash you can restore from. Bulk operations keep an undo history. Edited files keep version history, so the copy from an hour ago is one click away. Long-running jobs work in the background without tying up your browser.
A visual disk map shows what is taking up space at a glance, with dedicated finders for your largest files, duplicates and empty folders.
Light and dark themes that follow your system, your own accent colour, adjustable density and font size, and your logo and name across the top. On phones and tablets you get a real touch layout with its own action bar and gestures, not a shrunken desktop.
Filoby lives on your server and touches your files, so it is engineered accordingly. Paths are jailed to the roots you allow. Every action is permission-checked on the server, never just hidden in the interface. Passwords are hashed with argon2id, sign-ins are rate-limited, uploads that disguise executables are rejected, and archive extraction is protected against zip-slip attacks. The application file and its own data folder cannot be touched through the manager.
Updates are digitally signed and checksum-verified against the key built into your copy before anything installs. Filoby backs itself up ahead of every update and can roll back with one click.
Filoby ships as index.php, so if you place it in /files/ your manager loads at yoursite.com/files/. If you would rather keep it discreet, rename the file to anything at all, say my-files.php, and it runs from yoursite.com/files/my-files.php instead. The data folder, your share links, self-protection and one-click updates all follow the new name automatically - there is nothing to configure.
One honest note: a hard-to-guess filename makes Filoby less likely to be stumbled across, but it is not a security measure. Your login is what protects it.
One hostname is one site. It is a simple rule, and knowing it up front means you buy the right licence the first time:
example.com is one site.blog.example.com is a second, separate site. So is shop.example.com, and so is staging.example.com. Every subdomain needs its own slot.www.example.com and example.com count as the same site. The www prefix never costs you a slot.localhost, anything ending in .test or .local, and private IP addresses never use one up.So the Single Site licence at $49 covers one hostname - not a domain plus its subdomains. Planning to run Filoby on example.com and blog.example.com? That is two sites, and Multi Site is the licence you want.
Nothing is locked in forever. Release a site and register a different one whenever you like, or upgrade at any time and pay only the difference.
/files/. Keep the name index.php, or rename it if you prefer.https://yoursite.com/files/). A short wizard checks your server, lets you pick the folder to manage, and creates your admin account.Filoby registers the domain it is running on automatically, so there is nothing to type in and nothing to match up by hand. Your key is always available from your account here, and the same steps are included in the README inside your download.
Moving to a different domain later? Release the old site from the Licence screen or your account page, then activate the same key on the new one.
Every licence includes lifetime updates: pay once, and every future version is already yours. No subscription, no renewal, no upgrade fees. And if Filoby turns out not to be for you, there is a 30 day money-back guarantee, no questions asked.
The real application, running on real files. Nothing to sign up for, and nothing you can break that a Reset will not fix.
Loads the full app right here on the page.
or open it in a new tab →The demo is fully unlocked. Updates, adding new root folders and licence activation are switched off in it - everything else is the product exactly as you would run it.
Every licence is the same software with every feature unlocked. The only difference is how many sites you can run it on. Pay once, and every future version is included.
example.com and blog.example.com
are two sites, so the Single Site licence does not cover both.
www.example.com does not count separately, and
localhost / .test / .local
development hosts are always free.
For one website you own.
For a handful of projects, or a domain plus its subdomains.
For agencies and anyone who runs a lot of sites.
| Compare | Single Site $49.00 | Multi Site $119.00 | Unlimited $149.00 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites you can register | 1 site | 5 sites | Unlimited |
| Each subdomain counts as its own site | Included | Included | Included |
| www and the plain domain count as ONE site | Included | Included | Included |
| Free on localhost and dev domains | Included | Included | Included |
| Move a site to a new domain any time | Included | Included | Included |
| Every feature of the app, with nothing held back | Included | Included | Included |
| Lifetime updates, no renewal | Included | Included | Included |
| Manage your sites from your account | Included | Included | Included |
| Upgrade or downgrade whenever you like | Included | Included | Included |
| 30 day money-back guarantee | Included | Included | Included |
| Email support | Included | Included | Included |
| Price per site at full use | $49.00 | $23.80 | You decide |
Not sure which one? Count the hostnames you will run Filoby on - remembering that each subdomain is one of them. One website and nothing else, and Single Site is right. Either way you can upgrade from your account at any time and only pay the difference.
The audit log's date column was narrower than the date it had to print, and the cell was set never to wrap - so on every row the timestamp ran straight over the username beside it. The column now fits, and every column in that table truncates politely instead of colliding, so a long username or a wordier date format cannot cause it again.
Small consistency fix. The admin tab that opens the licence screen was labelled "License" while the screen itself, the documentation and your purchase email all say "Licence", so instructions pointing you to Admin panel > Licence named a tab that did not quite exist. Everything now agrees.
Filoby never required being called index.php - the data folder, share links, self-protection and updates have always followed the actual file - but the app kept saying "index.php" out loud regardless, so anyone who renamed it got told to go and check a file that did not exist on their server. Every message, the setup wizard and the README now use the real filename, and update backups are named after the file they came from instead of always being index_*.bak.
Corrects what Filoby tells you about itself. The setup wizard announced a free trial that did not exist, and the message you got when something was locked blamed an expired trial; there is no trial, so both now say plainly that the copy is unregistered and how to fix it. Gating itself is unchanged: an unregistered copy has always stayed fully readable and locked only the tools that change things. The diff and merge view also now works under the offline 'local' assets mode instead of always reaching for a CDN.
The first public release of Filoby. A complete file manager in one PHP file: four browsing views, a real code editor, previews for images, video, audio, PDF, Markdown and Office files, spreadsheet editing in the browser, search across every folder, private share links, multiple users with per-folder permissions, trash and undo, two-factor authentication, and signed automatic updates.
Your own order tracking website without touching anything technical. I register your domain, set up hosting, install OnTrack with your branding and keep it all running, updates included. From $29 a month, cancel anytime, and everything stays yours.
Give your customers a professional page where they can watch their order progress from deposit to done. One PHP file, no database, no monthly fees. Upload it to any hosting and you own it.
