diff --git a/web/20240410.publish-dir-web.md b/web/20240410.publish-dir-web.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9f56045 --- /dev/null +++ b/web/20240410.publish-dir-web.md @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +Publishing a Directory on the Web +================================= + +The Question +------------ + +[2024-04-10] + +Suppose you want to publish a directory tree on the web, so that +it may look and function like, e.g. HTML-front-ended FTP site, +such as . +How to do this? + +Some use cases: + +* Jekyll-based Gitlab pages prevent such a directory listing, + although local Jekyll server doesn't prohibit such. + Perhaps for security reason to prevent automated crawling + and harvesting. + +"Creating an HTML Index Using Python" +https://joshbrunty.github.io/2021/10/29/indexer.html + +Git repo: https://github.com/joshbrunty/Indexer