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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

#180562 — index.html

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
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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#180577

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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#180578

On Mon, May 01, 2017 at 11:55:49AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote:
> If you just want to list the directories contents, try putting in an 
> index.php with something like this in it:

Or remove all of index.php, index.html and index.htm, and make sure
you've turned on the "Indexes" option for this directory in the Apache
config.  Then Apache will simply generate a directory index page for
you, and you don't need to write a PHP program.

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#180579

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On Mon, May 01, 2017 at 11:55:49AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote:
> 
> 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 [...]

Or there is the

  Options +Indexes

for the Apache config [1]. You can fine-tune how the index itself
is rendered via the IndexOptions directive [2].

This would be a more lightweight, yet less flexible approach.

Note that you'll have to make sure that your clients don't see
things you don't want them to see (but this applies even more
strongly to a scripting solution, like the PHP example offered)

regards
[1] https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#options
[2] https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_autoindex.html#indexoptions

- -- tomás
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#180582

On Monday 01 May 2017 11:55:49 Tony Baldwin wrote:

> 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.

My web site is very simple, text and pix. So this 82 yo old fart can 
usually maintain it himself. No php, no databasie stuff at all.

The closest to high level stuff is that the pix galleries were created 
using jigl, so when you visit one of those pages, you get a screenfull 
of thumbnails, clicking on one of them brings up a pretty compressed but 
full screen image.  Clicking on many of those a second time will get you 
the original, straight out of the camera version of that image.  Those 
directories with mixed text & images are presented as a directory 
listing, but you can click on an image and get it, or .pdf's and such 
are offered for downloading when clicking on the directory entry.

Its a pretty "stable" site. If I add something, the link gets posted on 
the mailing list that applies so folks interested in one of my cnc 
machines will know about it, but I don't take out adds in the paper 
about it.

> 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


Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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