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The person who created a folder has always been able to delete it, but all the files inside it had to be deleted first, one by one. But now when you delete a folder, it will automatically delete all the files too. Make sure you delete the right folder! There is no "undo" function (no Trash or Recycle Bin), so the folder and everything inside it will be permanently deleted once you click the OK button on the confirmation dialog. Also, if there are any subfolders inside the folder you are trying to delete, it will generate an error message and nothing will be deleted until all the subfolders are removed, which you may not be able to do if they are private folders. Please contact Technical Support for assistance if you run into this problem. (Good idea, Hans, sorry it took so long)

When accessing the site using two different browsers, independent sessions will be created for each one. This is convenient because you can be uploading files or publishing articles under your personal login in one browser and checking the access privileges and how the article will appear to a casual visitor in the other browser (just don't login). It also allows you to access both the regular site and the demonstration version simultaneously in the same browser, which is real nice for us developers.

News and Articles can now be published through the browser directly into the site. The full text of the Articles is stored in the database. Images are uploaded separately from the Articles on another page then back-referenced with an <IMG> tag. A User needs to belong to a Profile that has Publishing privileges to use this module. Articles are organized into Categories which are grouped into Sections. Only Administrators can create new Sections and Categories. An article can belong to more than one Category. Topics allow Articles in different Categories to be cross-referenced. The MySQL full text search capability is used for filtering.

The System Adminstrator is now able to view and search the web server log files in the Administration module. Actually, it supports just about any log because the format is defined in the configuration file for each one. And it even works with compressed log files, decompressing them on the fly. A separate configuration option determines whether IP addresses are resolved to host names or not, which is a large factor in how fast the log files are parsed. Although it would be trivial to store the parsed information in the database, I decided to leave it as compressed archives for now because it is easier to eliminate the old ones with the same shell script that copies them to the working directory and so far, the time it takes to parse them is pretty reasonable. (Update: Here is a representative screenshot)

SSL (Secure Socket Layer) is now supported, which automatically encrypts/decrypts the data stream between your browser and this web server. Financial and shopping sites rely on SSL to hide your bank statements and credit card numbers. Although no personal or financial information is collected by this site, it was still important not to send your account password in clear text. SSL relies on a third-party site, called a certifying authority, to verify the identity of the hosting site, but they demand some pretty hefty fees for this service, so this site is acting as its own certifying authority. This will cause your browser to issue a warning that the certifying authority is not recognized and do you want to continue. Internet Explorer confuses things by asking if you want to "install" the certificate, but it doesn't do anything different than any other browser, which is to just keep a list of certicates in its cache, like cookies. This application has the option not to use SSL at all, or just use it on the Login page or to encrypt everything, which hurts performance and more importantly, prevents your browser from caching anything, so this site just encrypts the Login page.

Any user who has been granted anything more than just downloading privileges for a limited folder can now view all of the access privileges for that folder. Checking the access privileges of a folder before uploading files into it is very important, especially for folders you do not own. On Mac OS, you can see what type of folder it is by the symbol on the folder icon in the directory, where the black head is private or owner only, the yellow caution sign is public or group access only, and no symbol (a plain blue folder) is limited access, which is the default when creating new folders. Unfortunately, the folder icons for the other platforms are always plain, but searching for Privileges will reveal which folders are limited and whether you can upload files into them.