How do I make this kind of site? (n00b)

Doohickey · 2 Jun 2006 at 02:00

Hi guys, I'm very much a n00b at this kind of stuff, I was just wondering how to make a directory kinda thing for files I upload onto my site etc? I'm thinking it looks and probably is very simple but I've no idea, meh

Like this:

Thanks for any help

robmiller · 2 Jun 2006 at 02:04

Most webservers will do it automatically when you browse to a directory without a custom index file in it.

Doohickey · 2 Jun 2006 at 04:18

robmiller said:
Most webservers will do it automatically when you browse to a directory without a custom index file in it.

Hmm. I must be doing something wrong, I've created a subdirectory, ftp'd some images into it, and not created an index file, but when I browse it I get a 403 forbidden, no permission etc... :confused:

I'm using f2s if that makes any difference?

Burbleflop · 2 Jun 2006 at 05:26

Doohickey said:
Hmm. I must be doing something wrong, I've created a subdirectory, ftp'd some images into it, and not created an index file, but when I browse it I get a 403 forbidden, no permission etc... I'm using f2s if that makes any difference?

You're not doing anything wrong, it just means that F2S have their webserver setup to not allow directory listings, hence the 403 you get.

Webservers can be set to give you a directory listing on the absence of index.html/index.php/whatever or they can be set to refuse to give directory listings as has been done in this case.

Doohickey · 2 Jun 2006 at 08:37

Oh what

Could you (or anyone else) recommend a webserver that does do this? And a free one, preferably

Burbleflop · 2 Jun 2006 at 08:44

Any webserver should do it.

Apache is the one I know, they call it 'Indexes' and a config example would be something like (grabbed from one of my servers then modified to allow it):

<Directory /www/htdocs/>
Options +Indexes
</Directory>

Beansprout · 2 Jun 2006 at 08:54

Yup - just make a file called 'htaccess' in Notepad and in it put the single line "Options +Indexes" then upload it to the directory you want to see (it'll also affect all subdirectories) and rename it to ".htaccess" (reason for the rename is becuase Windows is funny about creating files with nothing before the full stop).

If that doesn't work (or gives an error) then they've not setup Apache (presumin g they run Apache) to allow the setting :eek: