{"id":35767,"date":"2023-05-31T12:09:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T12:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/?p=35767"},"modified":"2025-06-12T10:58:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T10:58:17","slug":"list-of-top-free-open-source-self-hosted-application-for-file-transfer-web-based-file-managers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/list-of-top-free-open-source-self-hosted-application-for-file-transfer-web-based-file-managers\/","title":{"rendered":"List of Top Free Open Source &amp; Self Hosted Application for File Transfer &#8211; Web-based File Managers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Web-based\u00a0file managers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/oupala.github.io\/apaxy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apaxy<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Theme built to enhance the experience of browsing web directories, using the mod_autoindex Apache module and some CSS to override the default style of a directory listing. <code>GPL-3.0<\/code>\u00a0<code>HTML<\/code><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/9001\/copyparty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">copyparty<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, deduplication, WebDAV, FTP, zeroconf, media indexer, video thumbnails, audio transcoding, and write-only folders, in a single file with no mandatory dependencies. <code>MIT<\/code>\u00a0<code>Python<\/code><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.directorylister.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DirectoryLister<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Simple PHP based directory lister that lists a directory and all its sub-directories and allows you to navigate there within. <code>MIT<\/code>\u00a0<code>PHP<\/code><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/filebrowser.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filebrowser<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Web File Browser with a Material Design web interface. <code>Apache-2.0<\/code>\u00a0<code>Go<\/code><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/filegator.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FileGator<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; FileGator is a powerful multi-user file manager with a single page front-end. <code>MIT<\/code>\u00a0<code>PHP<\/code><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filestash.app\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Filestash<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 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