Is it possible to automatically load index.html on a system folder without using XAMPP, IIS or similar?
It is for a school project and I can't use them, so I have to open the file putting the path (C:/...) into the address bar.
I know I could use .htaccess, but I don't know what to write and if it gets read without any web server solutions!
This can get a little tricky... but is possible without any "administrator" privileges, nor without installing anything.
Download Python 3.8.2 - Windows x86-64 embeddable zip file
Create a folder on "python" on the c:\
Extract the "Zip" file into this folder
Change the folder name from "python-3.8.2-embed-amd64" to "python_src"
Create a folder named "python_html"
The folder structure should look like:
c:\python\
c:\python\python_src\
c:\python\python_html\
Create a file named "webserver.py" in the "c:\python\python_html" folder
Place the following code into that file:
#webserver.py
import http.server
import socketserver
PORT = 80
Handler = http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
with socketserver.TCPServer(("", PORT), Handler) as httpd:
print("serving at port", PORT)
httpd.serve_forever()
Save and close the file
Create index.html file in the "python_html" folder and place the following code in that file:
<html>
<head>
<title>Web Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Python Web Server File</h1>
<p>Congratulations! The HTTP Server is working!</p>
</body>
</html>
Open the "Command Prompt" and type the following commands
cd\
cd python\python_html\
c:\python\python_src\python ./webserver.py
Open a web browser and navigate to "http://localhost/"
Once you have confirmed this works, you can build an entire website within that "python_html" folder. As long as you don't close the command prompt it will continue acting as a "Web Server".
I know I could use .htaccess
.htaccess is an Apache (Web Server) config file, so unless you have Apache installed (ie. the "A" in XAMPP) then you can't use that. (If .htaccess was available then index.html would likely load automatically anyway.)
On Apache, being able to load index.html by default when requesting a directory requires mod_dir (an Apache module). In this case, mod_dir issues an internal subrequest for the DirectoryIndex - this all requires additional processes.
I can't install extensions... I have to open the file on my school computer
If you can't install anything then you can't do this I'm afraid. You appear to be limited to direct file requests.
When using a webserver (such as Apache or IIS) then you have a differentiation between a URL and a filesystem path. The webserver maps the URL to a filesystem path. Without a webserver you don't have that abstraction.
There are lighter webservers, other than Apache and IIS, but you need to install something extra.
Just give your file(s) meaningful names (ie. not index.html) and use those instead? eg. fox-project.html
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I'm trying to host a website on a Raspberry pi4. I'm having some problems displaying the folder.
The code below is what I have so far, but, the following error message appears when I press the link: The requested URL was not found on this server.
<title> Folder </title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Folder</h1>
<a href ="\home\pi\Documents" > Click to open folder </a>
</body>
</html>```
There are two obvious problems here:
Path separators in UNIX/UNIX-like operating systems (including Linux) and in URLs are /, not \.
URLs need to be provided by an HTTP server (such as Apache HTTPD, Nginx, or Lighttpd). In a traditional configuration (designed to just serve up static files) the root of the website will map on to a specific directory on the file system, and not the root of the file system (which would expose all sorts of private files).
The path you need to ask for needs to treat / as the server's root directory and not the file system's root directory.
how do I get the index.html file to open when you go to file:///C:/Users/ONT%20Studios/Downloads/test/ i.e. can I make it so it doesn't show the directories but opens the index.html file?
You've tagged this .htaccess, which is a configuration file format for Apache HTTPD, but you aren't using Apache HTTPD or any other HTTP server.
You are just reading a local directory with your web browser.
Web browsers do not have features to load an index.html instead of showing a directory listing when you point them at a directory.
Use an HTTP server.
I have http://192.168.230.237:20080 Server
file located on "/etc/Jay/log/jay.txt"
I tried with "http://192.168.230.237:20080/etc/Jay/log/jay.txt" this link gives me "404 NOT Found"
Here I can I link my file to link
Your HTTP server will have a configuration option somewhere (Apache HTTPD calls it DocumentRoot) which determines where http://example.com/ maps onto the filesystem of the computer.
Commonly this will be /var/www/.
Unless you change it to / (which would expose your entire filesystem over HTTP and is very much not recommended), you can't access arbitrary files on the computer.
/etc/ is used to store configuration information for software installed on the computer. It should almost never be exposed outside the computer.
The best solution to your problem is probably:
Look at the configuration of your HTTP server and identify the document root (e.g. /var/www/)
Move your website files to that directory
If you really want to expose files under /etc via HTTP then you could also change the document root.
Your webserver might also support features like Apache HTTPD's Alias directive which allows you to map a URL onto a file that can be outside the DocumentRoot.
I have an OpenShift server running python. However when I call php via SSL the php interpreter starts running. It suggests that there might be a way to run php as well. However, HTML if fair enough for me. Now, I do not know how to be able to reach html files on my server as when I am trying I always get 404 not found. I've read about a solution of placing a .htaccess file:
AddType application/x-httpd-php .html
I am not exactly sure where to place this file but placing in the folder of the .html file still not helps.
Could you please help me how I can make .html files reachable at an OpenShift server running Python? How about php?
Put the .html file in your app-root/repo/wsgi/static folder (or in that folder in your git repository). if you want it to be displayed like app-domain.rhcloud.com/file.html, you will have to use a .htaccess file in your wsgi folder that rewrites file.html to static/file.html
I have this structure for my project:
Root Directory
|-css folder
|-style.css
|
|-it folder
|-index.html
If I try to include css file with:
<link href="/css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
from index.html, aptana preview and also internal server can not find style.css.
Why is this?
In my remote server it works perfectly and I do not want to use a relative path.
In terms of the "why", the problem you are having is related to how your development server is setup versus your production server.
Assuming a standard setup, your production server will receive requests for a domain (i.e., http://mysite.com) that is, for lack of a better word, mapped to a folder on your server (i.e, a request to http://mysite.com will be mapped to a folder, /var/www/mysite, on your server).
So, when you link to a style sheet with /css/style.css, your (production) sever immediately goes to the /var/www/mysite folder and starts looking for the css folder, file and so on. No problems with that, as you point out.
Your development machine, however, is serving up pages locally and has a different directory structure for mapping to files and folders.
When I open an HTML page in my Aptana project and hit the preview button, Studio loads http://127.0.0.1:8020/mysite/public/404.html (note how the first folder after the IP and port is mysite). To load the absolutely pathed CSS file, the local server is actually looking for http://127.0.0.1:8020/css/styles.css but it needs to get to http://127.0.0.1:8020/mysite/css/styles.css.
The initial "/" in your link (/css/styles.css) tells the server to go to the root directory of the server and start looking for the folder and files from that point ... but there is no css folder in the local server's root directory. It lives in /mysite/css/styles.css and that's why fskreuz suggests relative paths and using "../css/styles.css" instead.
Personally, I prefer absolute links (but that's just a personal preference and not in any way a challenge to or comment upon fskreuz's response). However, my local development setup is conducive to using them because I setup virtual hosts for the sites I work on. Using Apache, I setup a virtual host for each of my projects. With this, I can load something like http://dev.mysite.com in any browser on my computer and test my site/app in a way that makes it mirror my production setup.