Filemanager is a simple Django app to browse files on server. You can also integrate this filemanager with CKEditor.

Add "filemanager" to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this::

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'filemanager',
)

• As a filemanager : To upload files on server by a user to a directory and let him manage his directory by adding, renaming and deleting files and folders inside it.

• Integrating it with CKEditor for the functionality of "Browse Server".

In urls.py of your app to make filemanager run at url /abc/

from filemanager import path_end
urlpatterns = patterns('app',
   .
   .
   (r'^abc/'+path_end,'view'),
)

And then write the view in views.py of your app

from filemanager import FileManager
from settings import MEDIA_ROOT
def view(request,path):
  fm = FileManager(MEDIA_ROOT+'user_folder/')
  return fm.render(request,path)

And it is done.

Adding constraints to Filemanager : FileManager _init_ is defined as

def __init__(self,basepath,ckeditor_baseurl='',maxfolders=50,maxspace=5*1024,maxfilesize=1*1024,public_url_base=None,extensions=None):
   """
   basepath: User's directory basepath in server.
   maxfolders: Maximum number of total nested folders allowed inside the user directory.
   maxspace (in KB): Maximum space allowed for the user directory.
   maxfilesize (in KB): Limit for the size of an uploaded file allowed in user directory.
   extensions: List of extensions allowed. Ex. ['pdf','html'] etc.
   public_base_url: A base_url if given there will be an option to copy file url with the given url_base.
   """

Hence one should also pass arguments like maxfolders, maxspace, maxfilesize if one doesn't want to use the default ones. If extensions list is not passed then all file-extensions are allowed for upload.

Use filemanager.models.CKEditorField field in you model. Or you can use filemanager.widgets.CKEditorWidget as a widget for CKEditor in forms. Both classes can take an extra argument filemanager_url while making instances from them. Suppose you want to run filemanager at url /abc/ in your app then make changes in urls.py and views.py like above. Then in CKEditorField or CKEditorWidget pass the url of filemanager as argument filemanager_url. For example in models.py :

from filemanager.models import CKEditorField
class MyModel(models.Model):
  .
  .
  content = CKEditorField(filemanager_url='/app/abc/')