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Re: Being amazed by software development

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This is the most confusing thing I've seen all week. I don't actually understand what problem this is solving. Is this not equivalent to taking your html files, putting them in /var/www and then starting up apache ?

I understood exactly the same as you.

This doesn't exist as a service because it's the default thing that apache does.

Re: Being amazed by software development

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post #4
post #3

This is the most confusing thing I've seen all week. I don't actually understand what problem this is solving. Is this not equivalent to taking your html files, putting them in /var/www and then starting up apache ?

I understood exactly the same as you. This doesn't exist as a service because it's the default thing that apache does.

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Re: Being amazed by software development

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post #4
post #3

This is the most confusing thing I've seen all week. I don't actually understand what problem this is solving. Is this not equivalent to taking your html files, putting them in /var/www and then starting up apache ?

I understood exactly the same as you. This doesn't exist as a service because it's the default thing that apache does.

Yes, this is mod_autoindex, right?

Re: Being amazed by software development

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post #3

This is the most confusing thing I've seen all week. I don't actually understand what problem this is solving. Is this not equivalent to taking your html files, putting them in /var/www and then starting up apache ?

it seems to also enable POSTing new docs and DELETEing them but yeah, if this is meant to be self-hosted anyway, i am missing the point.

Re: Being amazed by software development

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post #7
post #3

This is the most confusing thing I've seen all week. I don't actually understand what problem this is solving. Is this not equivalent to taking your html files, putting them in /var/www and then starting up apache ?

it seems to also enable POSTing new docs and DELETEing them but yeah, if this is meant to be self-hosted anyway, i am missing the point.

Apache, SSH, and/or rsync all support forms of that.
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