creating htmls from a directory tree?

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:35:12PM -0300, Daniel Molina Wegener wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 February 2010,
> Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:05:36AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote:
> > > In response to Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk>:
> > > > 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.
> 
>   Also you can try WebDAV modules and clients ;)

After a quick read on wikipedia,
I think it's very unlikely the web server guys will
be happy with this, from the security point of view.

Anyway, thanks for the idea, now I know.
anton

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