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Getting started in the pydio 6 web application
Pydio, formerly known as AjaXplorer, is an open-source file-sharing and synchronisation software that runs on the user's own server or in the cloud.
Contents
- Getting started in the pydio 6 web application
- Sharing files with pydio
- Presentation
- Features
- References
Sharing files with pydio
Presentation
The project was created by musician Charles Du Jeu (current CEO and CTO) in 2007 under the name AjaXplorer. The name was changed in 2013 and became Pydio (an acronym for Put Your Data in Orbit).
Pydio runs on any server supporting a recent PHP version.
From a technical point of view, Pydio differs from solutions such as Google Drive or Dropbox. Pydio is not based on a public cloud, the software indeed connects to the user's existing storages (SAN / Local FS, SAMBA / CIFS, (s)FTP, NFS, etc...) as well as to the existing user directories (LDAP / AD, SAML, Raidus, Shibboleth...), which allows companies to keep their data inside their legacy infrastructure, according to their data security policy and user rights management.
The software is built in a modular perspective; various plugins allow administrators to implement extra-features.
Pydio is available either through a community distribution, or an Enterprise Distribution.
Features
Client applications are available for all major desktop and mobile platforms.