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Cc: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: creating htmls from a directory tree?
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Anton Shterenlikht writes:

>  > > I'd like to upload a directory structure to a web
>  > > server. I'd like to create in each subdirectory
>  > > an index.html with a simple list of files in this
>  > > directory for a simple browsing.
>  > > 
>  > > This sounds like a perl or shell script, but
>  > > I was wondering if there is someting like
>  > > this already available from ports. I couldn't
>  > > find anything suitable.
>  > 
>  > You could just turn on Apache's built-in directory listing capability and
>  > Apache will create those files on-demand.
>  
>  I see.. I need to talk to the web server guys then.

	The magic phrase is:

	IndexOptions FancyIndexing

	This can also be put in .htaccess; whether or not that file is
honored is up to the server.


				Robert Huff