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Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 11/22/52 11:37
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, David Dorward wrote:
> You need a process running on the server to generate an index page.
> Most servers will generate directory indexes automatically (although
> the feature can be turned off),
In both senses, yes - the page owner can turn it off to prevent
readers from trawling to see what's in the directory, which can be a
useful thing to do sometimes; and the server admin could turn it off
to prevent the content owner from using the feature, although I can't
imagine that being particularly useful - it's not as if directory
indexing consumes much in the way of resources.
> but rolling your own in (for
> instance) Perl will give you more control over the appearance.
Agreed, but I'm not sure I'd recommend it casually - there are too
many ways of digging oneself into a fairly deep hole...
> The specifics depend on the capabilities of your webserver.
Most servers, in practice, are Apache-based, and Apache can do some
neat things in its directory indexing feature. I would recommend
looking there first. The mod_autoindex documentation should get one
started.
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