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H5ai - a beautified Apache index

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Re: H5ai - a beautified Apache index

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Post by noibl »

sikhnerd wrote: post #2

Link to source and some screenshots, since the site is quite slow right now: https://github.com/lrsjng/h5ai

As always, Chrome users, prefix the address in the omnibox with 'cache:' to get

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Alarsj...

At first I thought this was kind of overkill for such a 'simple' function but the example of Github shows how important effective presentation of a file list can be. To the average web user the default Apache listing can look 'broken' whereas I would have no problem directing a client to the URL of an index that looked like this.

Re: H5ai - a beautified Apache index

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Post by simcop2387 »

overshard wrote: post #5

This is quite nice, however, if you are wanting to serve static content I no longer believe Apache the proper tool for the job. Use cherokee, lighttpd or nginx, they are all faster and have decent file interfaces.

Looking at the way it works, I would imagine that this should be usable even on other web servers. The only key lines are the ones that set the header and footer that do the dirty work. I haven't been able to try the demo (nor have I had time to set it up myself yet), so I don't know how well it works but the screen shots make it look like it could be fairly nice for providing a more familiar interface to a non-computer savy users.

Re: H5ai - a beautified Apache index

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Post by moeffju »

noibl wrote: post #4
sikhnerd wrote: post #2

Link to source and some screenshots, since the site is quite slow right now: https://github.com/lrsjng/h5ai

As always, Chrome users, prefix the address in the omnibox with 'cache:' to get http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Alarsj... At first I thought this was kind of overkill for such a 'simple' function but the example of Github shows how important effective presentation of a file list can be. To the average web user the default Apache listing can look 'broken' whereas I would have no problem directing…

This is a Google search feature, not a Chrome Omnibox feature, btw.
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