How to you make an iNdex?

Spunog UIE

Hey how do you make a page that shows a file directory on a webpage? I used to get one when i had a page on geocities if i deleted the main index.html or that. But have stuff on compsoc.com and if i try that i get that 404? invalid url page.

Thx,
Gideon.

MiCr0

you need directory browsing enabled
what file system are you using?

Spunog UIE

file system!? not exactly sure what ya mean or i dunno what it is.

Its on a Linux server... command promt on it is:
Red Hat Linux release 6.1
Kernel 2.2.14 on an i686.

I don't think thats what you wanna know?

buddy

Never heard of someone wanting to do that - on some servers if their is no index page it reverts to showing a file directory - which sucks if you don't want people knowing every file you have.

So, to prevent this in every folder you have to insert an index.html file as you mention.

With this, some beter servers don't do this as with compsoc.com.

I doubt they will be able to give this to you as an option - so if you really need you'll have to make a webpage for that purpose!!

Why do u need it???

Spunog UIE

Cos i always use the compsoc connection to download stuff to my space through telnet and then get it from there or if my friends want it or are in college they can get it on a faster connection, It just be very handy rather than having to update a webpage over and over again with the new files downloaded and what size they are etc' (and there usually is a lot of them).

dahamsta

Getting a 404 strikes me as a bit odd, are you sure you're not getting another error? Anyway, it seems compsoc have Indexes turned off. You can try the following, but I doubt it will work:

Create a file called '.htaccess' in the root of your website, and put the following in it:

Options +Indexes

One of three things will happen: nothing, a 500 error, or indexes. If you get one of the former two, just delete the .htaccess file. If you get the latter, well, you're oxo. Here's the relevant Apache docs:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/core.html#options
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_autoindex.html

adam

peterd

OK, I can't take the credit for this one, lifted straight from a book This perl script *should* do the trick...

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";

$dir = ".";

opendir( LOGDIR, $dir ) || print "Oh No, this isn't going to plan\n";
@logfiles = readdir(LOGDIR);
closedir(LOGDIR);

if (@logfiles) {
print "Here's your directory details...\n";
foreach $file(@logfiles) {
print "<LI>$file" unless ( $file =~ /^\.+$/ );
}
} else {
print "This is an empty directory\n";
}

# by peter

- Copy+Paste into text editor and save as
dirinfo.pl
- Upload to cgi-bin and chmod 755
- run the script in your browser (i.e. www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/dirinfo.pl )

this will show all the files/folders in your cgi-bin. If you want to list all the files in your www.mydomain.com/private/ directory, just change the line $dir = "."; to $dir = "../private";