Pipex dslspace - allowing browsing of a folder

I have a folder on my dsl space that I want people to be able to browse (ie
see a list of files, click on one to open). At the moment it wont let me,
either get permission denied, or just a place holder saying there isnt an
index.htm there. What am I missing?

TIA

Oli

"Oliver Haslam" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I have a folder on my dsl space that I want people to be able to browse
(ie
> see a list of files, click on one to open). At the moment it wont let me,
> either get permission denied, or just a place holder saying there isnt an
> index.htm there. What am I missing?
>
> TIA
>
> Oli
>

Hi,
I assume you mean your webspace. This is just a guess, but a number of
providers of web space will only make the page visible if an index.htm (or
index.html) file is available in the webspace. Try creating a simple page
pointing to your files and see if that solves the problem.

--

Martin

> Hi,
> I assume you mean your webspace. This is just a guess, but a number
of
> providers of web space will only make the page visible if an index.htm (or
> index.html) file is available in the webspace. Try creating a simple page
> pointing to your files and see if that solves the problem.
>
> --
>
> Martin

Hi Martin

Yes I mean the webspace, pipex just call it DSLSpace

I assumed making a page would get round the problem. Thing is I want to be
able to just whack images up there without having to edit any html for
people to see them. Dont suppose there's a way of writing some code that
automatically adds new images is there?

Ta very much

Oli

"Oliver Haslam" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote

> I assumed making a page would get round the problem. Thing is I want to
be
> able to just whack images up there without having to edit any html for
> people to see them. Dont suppose there's a way of writing some code that
> automatically adds new images is there?

If you load them up and they're not on a page, people will have to use the
image name in the url eg

http://www.yourwebaddresshere.com/image1.gif

etc

HTH.

T.

"Oliver Haslam" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> > Hi,
> > I assume you mean your webspace. This is just a guess, but a number
> of
> > providers of web space will only make the page visible if an index.htm
(or
> > index.html) file is available in the webspace. Try creating a simple
page
> > pointing to your files and see if that solves the problem.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Martin
>
> Hi Martin
>
> Yes I mean the webspace, pipex just call it DSLSpace
>
> I assumed making a page would get round the problem. Thing is I want to
be
> able to just whack images up there without having to edit any html for
> people to see them. Dont suppose there's a way of writing some code that
> automatically adds new images is there?
>
> Ta very much
>
> Oli
>

Hi Oli,
does the webserver support CGI scripts? If so, you cold write a script
called index.cgi that would list the files in the images directory, and
dynamically generate a webpage listing the various images. Doing this in
perl, if supported, should be fairly straight forward. If the server is
setup correctly, it would then call index.cgi when the page was accessed.
If not, you would have to create an index.htm page with a link to the CGI
script.

--

Martin