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Re: index.html

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On 04/30/2017 08:26 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> Imagine my surprise when I looked at /var/www/html/index.html,
> and found that somehow, it was native to a PCLos install I was running
> half a decade or more ago!
>
> Now, do we have a script that will rebuild a new index.html for the
> defined root of the server, and which WILL access the /var/www/html/gene
> directory? This should restore the whole site to http compatibility.
>
> Right now, with out without that file, the subdir "gene" isn't
> accessible.  Cannot be found is the message.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
>

nope. You've got to write or create your own index, unless you install 
something that generates one, such as dokuwiki, or wordpress, or any of 
a myriad of other CMS, (micro)blogging, social networking, or wiki 
platforms, forums or gallerys...the possibilities are nearly endless.

If you just want to list the directories contents, try putting in an 
index.php with something like this in it:

<html>
<body>
<ul>
<?php
    // loop through files and list them

    $path = "/var/www/html/gene/";

    $dir_handle = @opendir($path) or die("Unable to open $path");

    while ($file = readdir($dir_handle)) {

          if($file == "." || $file == ".." || $file == "index.php" || 
$file == "private" || $file == ".htaccess" || $file == "robots.txt" || 
$file == ".index.php.swp" )

                  continue;

          echo "<li><a href=\"$file\">$file</a></li>";

  }

  closedir($dir_handle);
?>
</ul>
</body>
</html>


You'll have to have php5 or better installed.
This is essentially how I built http://tonybaldwin.me/pages/
and various other pages on my site, including
http://tonybaldwin.me/images/
  only that has
  $path = "/path/to/www/images/";

....
<p><a href=\"$file\" target=\"_new\"><img src=\"$file\" 
style=\"max-width:200px;\"><br />$file</a>
because that dir is full of images, so I have the index show a 
thumbnail, linking to the larger image.


tony

-- 
http://tonybaldwin.me
all tony, all the time

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index.html Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-05-01 02:30 +0200
  Re: index.html Tony Baldwin <tonybaldwin@gmx.com> - 2017-05-01 18:00 +0200
    Re: index.html Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-05-01 18:20 +0200
    Re: index.html <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-05-01 18:30 +0200
    Re: index.html Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-05-01 19:20 +0200

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