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Aleksander Azizi
Aleksander Azizi

Reputation: 9877

OS X Lion - Website sharing , display directory files

I need some help to get Mac WebSite sharing to work as i want.

Basically i need to know how i can make it display the files of a directory.

Do i need to make a website to show my directory files or is there any other way ?

And if i do need to make a website to display my directory, what code should i use to do so ?

I am no expert on HTML at all.

Allso, i have been searching around for this and i couldn't find any answers related to my question.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 423

Answers (2)

kwbock
kwbock

Reputation: 647

You need to turn indexes on in your Apache config. This could be on by default. Check to see if you have folder named Sites in your home directory. If you do rename the index.html page (if there is one) and then navigate to http://localhost/~yourusernamehere.

The same applies if you are using the default apache directory (the system wide one) which is located in /Library/WebServer/Documents if I remember correctly. In this case you would navigate to http://localhost. I just checked on my system (OS X 10.7) and the indexes were enabled by default.

Upvotes: 2

Jack
Jack

Reputation: 15872

You will need to use a server-side language such as PHP, Java, ASP.NET if you want to display the 'servers' directory on a web page. I will say because you're a begineer use PHP as it's very easy to learn...

Download MAMP / XAMPP.

Research PHP and follow some tutorials first, and then implement directory searching and output it as HTML. http://php.net/manual/en/ref.dir.php

Code:

http://css-tricks.com/snippets/php/display-styled-directory-contents/

Upvotes: 1

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