Boa webserver config questions

[Andrew Hammond]

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Walter Dnes wrote:
>   I'm finally getting serious about setting up my personal webserver.
> I'll be using boa.  I notice the following in the config file...
> 
> =====================================================================
> # DirectoryIndex: Name of the file to use as a pre-written HTML
> # directory index.  Please MAKE AND USE THESE FILES.  On the
> # fly creation of directory indexes can be _slow_.
> # Comment out to always use DirectoryMaker
> 
> DirectoryIndex index.html
> 
> # DirectoryMaker: Name of program used to create a directory listing.
> # Comment out to disable directory listings.  If both this and
> # DirectoryIndex are commented out, accessing a directory will give
> # an error (though accessing files in the directory are still ok).
> 
> DirectoryMaker /usr/lib/boa/boa_indexer
> =====================================================================
> 
>   Does it simply need a file named "index.html" to serve up the
> directory in question, or does it require some boa-specific format?  And
> is there an *ACTIVE* boa mailing list or forum somewhere?  The mailing
> list pointed to by SourceForge shows maybe 1 email per month.

If you have a file named index.html, then boa will return that file.
Otherwise, it will run the DirectoryMaker program to generate an index page.

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