I can't realize how to load a video located on my Desktop on a front-end code I have in my localhost runing on apache2.
I tried: file:///localhost/home/Desktop/video.mp4 , but It doesn't work because for sure, I'm not right.
Thanks!
file protocol loads local files, first you have to use the http protocol, then apache will look for files in your document root directory so all paths will be relative to the document root, so first you have to set the correct document root, then use the correct protocol.
it would be like http://localhost/video.mp4
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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
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 want to learn AngularJs from http://www.tutorialspoint.com/angularjs
but an example must be deployed a server. I don't know anything about it.
Please give me some hint about deploy .htm extension file to a server.
Example url is following;
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/angularjs/angularjs_includes.htm
I believe that they just mean placing the files somewhere inside the web root. The web root should be deployed by your local or remote server.
Example:
Download and install MAMP.
Set your root directory as the MAMP root directory in preferences.
Now you can use your own paths -- just follow the example in the link you provided.
https://www.mamp.info/en/
Also, I'm of the opinion that it's good practice to at least use a local web server as opposed to running your website without one.
You don't need a webserver to test the code given in that example. ng-include using relative paths works fine.
However, if you really want to use a webserver for other examples/projects, depending upon your OS, you can use *AMP. where * means
W for windows
L for linux
once you have it installed, place the files in www folder. and access it in browser using http://localhost
Firstly I add my app folder under
D:\tomcat7\apache-tomcat-7.0.67-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-7.0.67\webapps
after I run tomcat server .
And run
http://localhost:8080/an/ht.htm
It is working :) Thanks #ketchupisred #Mridul Kashyap
How can I use absolute paths in my website while testing on my local filesystem? I know that I can use / to access the root directory of my website. However, this works only when my website is on the server. I want to be able to use absolute paths on my local filesystem so that I can do proper testing before uploading.
Is there a way to set a variable to a root directory in HTML? Something similar to Linux where you can define a variable WEBPATH=/home/user/website. Thus I can use e.g src="WEBPATH/folder/file.html for all the files I use in my website and I can modify WEBPATH depending on whether I am testing locally or using the server root folder.
I am open to other workarounds as well.
I'm assuming you're using a file url to access your HTML in the browser, in which case an easy way to get absolute paths working is by using a local webserver to serve your site.
If you have Python 3 installed, you can run python3 -m http.server from the command line at your web root, and it will serve your site at localhost:8000.
I'm having troubles serving a document which is in a higher level than my root folder.
<a href='../../home/folder/document.docx'>Proposal</a>
In the browser the above gets interpreted as:
http://localhost/home/folder/document.docx
I cannot see the browser going up in the folders and then the answer I get is:
Not Found
The requested URL /home/folder/document.docx was not found on this server.
I have tried in Firefox and Chrome, it happens the same. I am using Apache Web Server on a Linux machine.
Any help will be appreciated.
You can not redirect your visitors to a file outside of your document root (where you have your index.html).
People can't see files higher than where http://localhost/ ends up in.
A solution would be to put that .docx inside of your document root (where your index.html is in).
You can however let PHP serve the file using the readfile function.
But don't forget that www-data would need to have access to the file you're serving.