Return index.html for directories that don't have one

[jernst]

To avoid bandwidth consumption by search engines, ubos-repo does not provide a listing of the files in the directories. This, however, tends to confuse people who are attempting to debug why packages aren't installing on UBOS: they think the server is misconfigured or the depot is empty. So, using a mod_rewrite rule, perhaps, return an index.html document for those directories that don't have one that tells them about this.

[zvonimirr]

Hello, Can I take this? Also I have a question. ubos-repo's job is to display directories or to serve HTML as well?

[jernst]

Yes, you can!

I’ve kept the directory index out, because otherwise one gazillion search engines download tons of large binaries gazillion times a second … for no good reason, other than making Amazon rich out of my pocket :-)

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[zvonimirr]

Thanks :)

I'm looking at the code and for some when I run phpinfo(); I don't see CONTEXT in my enviroment variables. Does this have to do something with the fact that I'm using PHP built-in server?

[jernst]

You need to run ubos-repo under UBOS. Otherwise it's a bit pointless :-)

In UBOS: ubos-admin createsite enter ubos-repo for the name of the app access it, test it, decide what to change git clone http://.... makepkg ... ubos-admin update --pkg ubos-repo... and check how your changes panned out.

[zvonimirr]

Aha, Thank I will :) I've got school now but I'll check it out when I get home

[zvonimirr]

I'm sorry but I couldn't install UBOS on VirtualBox