In some websites, I see links that look like this:
Link
The link doesn't go to an html file, but a folder (I believe). I was wondering if this has any purpose, and how to do this. Is there a default file to open when opening a directory? Because when I try something like this, I click the link, then I see a list of files in that folder, and I have to click on the proper link.
Everywhere I look, it says you should do links like this:
Link
Should I just let it go? I'm awfully curious.
This is something that is controlled by the web server. Some will look for a file called default.htm, others will look for index.html. It's usually configurable, and sometimes the server may look for any of a number of variations of index or default.
If such a file is not found, the server will often display a directory listing of all the files found in that folder, but usually that's not a good idea for security reasons. Again, this is something that can be controlled in the settings for the server.
Allowing directory listing is VERY dangerous and ill-advised practice. You should hide real directory structure of your site by all means.
PHPDL is a Php script that lists all the files in a directory (except itself of course). What sets PHPDL apart is that everything the script needs is in one file, including the file-type icons it uses.
Note: You can rename the script to anything you want. It will not list itself as a file to download.
This script safe and usefull, see demos:
http://greg-j.com/projects/phpdl/PHPDL-v2.php
http://greg-j.com/projects/phpdl/PHPDL-lite.php
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How do I find the filename of an website I am inspecting with Firebug? As example when I look on http://example.org/ I can view inspect the Element, I see the whole html structure but I didn`t find the filename. I am searching for index.html or something in that way. Maybe this is an analog question, but I am not sure, because he/she is working with php. LINK
I know there are some solutions with Dreamweaver or other tools but I am searching for an easy way to figure that out with Firebug or an free Browser Add-On. I Hope you have a solution for that.
The URL you entered is the one that usually returns the main HTML contents. Though on most pages nowadays the HTML is altered using JavaScript. Also, pages are very often dynamically generated on the server.
So, in most cases there is no static .html file.
For what it's worth, you can see all network requests and their responses within Firebug's Net panel.
Note that the URL path doesn't necessarily reflect a file path on the server's file system. It is depending on the server configuration, where a specific URL maps to in the file system. The simplest example is the index file that is automatically called when a domain is accessed. In the case of http://example.org the server automatically loads a file index.html in the file system, for example.
So, in order to get the file name on the file system, you need to either check the server configuration or the related access logs.
We are using FileZilla as out FTP. At the moment, I want to insert a script in the live index.html. Unfortunately, there is more than 1 index.html files on the ftp.
I was wondering how to pinpoint the exact one?
Is there a way to trace it back using just the Google Chrome Inspect Element?
Thank you in advance!
By "live", I presume you mean the one displayed when you visit a particular URL; and by multiple index.html files existing, you presumably mean that there are multiple folders on the FTP server, and you don't know which one maps to the URL in question.
The short answer is no: the mapping from URL to directory structure can be configured however the administrator of the server wants, and is completely invisible to web browsers, so there is no general rule to find out.
Barring luck in finding some clue, you have two ways to attack the problem:
Firstly, you can search for distinctive content: take a copy of all the folders you think might be relevant, then do a "find in files" for some text you know is in the target file but unlikely to be elsewhere. At worst, you might narrow down the list of possibilities before trying the next approach.
Secondly, you can use trial and error: make a list of candidate files, then edit each in turn to add an innocuous but visible piece of text. Then load the target URL and see if it changed; if not, revert the file and try the next.
I have seen a lot of people been using that file name for their HTML files. I wonder why? I'm kind of new to HTML, I haven't learned much, but when I name my HTML files, I name them whatever I want. When I have been searching up examples of HTML, I have found they name it index.html. Why?
I have seen a lot of people been using that file name for their HTML files
You would typically use that name for one of your page, and it would usually be the home page.
When you arrive a website, for example www.website.com, you're not pointing to a file (like you would be if you typed www.website.com/about.html), you're pointing to a directory listing of all the files.
The webserver will try to serve a file, typically called index.html or index.php by default, but it could be something different, and it's configurable by editing your webserver's config files.
If the server doesn't find any file to serve (because you didn't include an index.html file or because you renamed it without editing the server's config) you will see a listing of the files, which is rarely the desired behavior, especially at the root of a website.
Generally the contents of index.html will be returned when just the directory is requested.
e.g. http://example.com/index.html is returned for a request for http://example.com
This is merely convention and is usually configurable.
Here is my take: It was likely named 'index' in the original internet because it is the 'indexing page' that directs to the sub pages, and you would go back to the index page to go to another page. This was before images and search engines. Later it got more advanced with a menu on all pages. This is how I remember it, but it's a long time ago.
https://twitter.com/PresidentUSW1/status/1442236777293496325?s=20
The default landing page of many Web servers defaults to index.html or default.htm and either way it's simply a start page. It's not necessary at all.
Dear Haskell community I have written my first gui application and decided to use
threepenny-gui to do so.
The task is the following search the files in a given folder for matches and provide links to open those files. In addition I made nice parse and render function as the files (mostly) have a special formatting.
But now I have stumbled upon a problem - most browsers prohibit links to local files by href="file://localhost/home/user/folder/file.pdf" being opened, for security reasons, which I do understand and find completely sensible.
I tried to use href="./file.pdf" when the program and the file are in the same folder, which also doesn't seem to work.
The code of the whole application is available at github/epsilonhalbe, I run it in a folder and access it via a browser at localhost:100000
The HTTP server provided by threepenny-gui will serve up static content from the directory you specify in tpStatic. Put your files in that directory, and make your links' paths be relative to it, and you'll be good to go!
As of threepenny-gui-0.4.*, there are also two functions loadFile and loadDirectory that can be used to serve a local file or directory at an automatically generated URL. This can be useful if the tpStatic field is not enough.
So, I've been trying to get a web page to display links to videos (over a symbolic link) dynamically (i.e., without hardcoding an <a></a> tag for each one) I have, and I think I may have found a solution, albeit a hacky one:
Video
Ignoring that this is a horrible way to do this, does anyone know how to format the following?:
I'm guessing there is an apache config file somewhere, but it is extremely hard to search for it as I do not know what it is called when files are just listed in this manner.
i'm basically looking to resize the widths of columns, and maybe even do some pretty-fication.
this is all running on my web/file server and is being accessed form my local machine.
This is what you're looking for:
http://perishablepress.com/better-default-directory-views-with-htaccess/
This tutorial details how directory listing by Apache can be modified to suit your taste using HTAccess file.
Using Apache HeaderName and ReadmeName directives and the module "mod_autoindex.c" you can add custom markup to your directory listing pages.
For displaying links to A/V and other files, look at my website: https://wrcraig.com/ApacheDirectoryDescriptions.
It goes beyond the default directory description, providing a spreadsheet to assist in creating detailed descriptions and exporting them in FancyIndex/AddDescription format for inclusion in .htaccess.
It also provides a menu driven BASH scripted alternative, using the FancyIndex descriptive data above (automatically adding A/V durations) to recursively populate a custom index.html while retaining the security features of .htaccess.
The site has examples of the input spreadsheet and both the FancyIndex output and the optional BASH scripted output.