Hello variously brilliant brothers and sisters. I am seeking to save myself some work by finding a system (script, app) that will simply list the files in a directory, an index if you will. Naturally every listing will be a hyperlink to that html file. I am doing this on a Debian box I rescued from oblivion. It has Apache2 installed already: 2.4.59-1. The files being served are converted-to-html programs and scripts I've written (not that that is relevant to this question).

The contents of the directory will not change frequently, so a script that builds a good-looking static index would suffice. However, I am keeping my mind open to installing (or writing) a dynamic apache application. I have no experience with apache and such applications, but at one time I was a passable web author and knew my way around the DOM and CSS.

A glance at Google showed that there are an overwhelming number of "Web Frameworks" and so on. I am lost. You would be doing a benevolent deed if you'd point me towards something that's (1) easy to install, and (2) easy to understand.

Dec 18, 2024 at 02:15 UTC

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