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The Fancy Index module makes possible the generation of file listings, like the built-in autoindex module does, but adding a touch of style. This is possible because the module module allows a certain degree of customization of the generated content:
- Custom headers. Either local or stored remotely.
- Custom footers. Either local or stored remotely.
- Add you own CSS style rules.
- Allow choosing to sort elements by name (default), modification time, or size; both ascending (default), or descending.
This module is designed to work with Nginx, a high performance open source web server written by Igor Sysoev.
You will need the sources for Nginx. Any version starting from the 0.7
series onwards will work. Note that the modules might compile with
versions in the 0.6 series by applying nginx-0.6-support.patch, but this
is unsupported (YMMV).
In order to use the fancyindex_header and fancyindex_footer directives you will also need the ngx_http_addition_module built into Nginx.
Unpack the Nginx sources:
$ gunzip -c nginx-?.?.?.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
Unpack the sources for the fancy indexing module:
$ gunzip -c nginx-fancyindex-?.?.?.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
Change to the directory which contains the Nginx sources, run the configuration script with the desired options and be sure to put an
--add-moduleflag pointing to the directory which contains the source of the fancy indexing module:$ cd nginx-?.?.? $ ./configure --add-module=../nginx-fancyindex-?.?.? \ [--with-http_addition_module] [extra desired options]
Build and install the software:
$ make
And then, as
root:# make install
Configure Nginx by using the modules' configuration directives.
You can test the default built-in style by adding the following lines into
a server section in your Nginx configuration file:
location / {
fancyindex on; # Enable fancy indexes.
fancyindex_exact_size off; # Output human-readable file sizes.
}
The following themes demonstrate the level of customization which can be achieved using the module:
- Theme by @TheInsomniac. Uses custom header and footer.
- Theme by @stayn0ided. Uses custom header and footer, the header includes search field to filter by filename using JavaScript (demo).
| Syntax: | fancyindex [on | off] |
|---|---|
| Default: | fancyindex off |
| Context: | http, server, location |
| Description: | Enables or disables fancy directory indexes. |
| Syntax: | fancyindex_default_sort [name | size | date | name_desc | size_desc | date_desc] |
|---|---|
| Default: | fancyindex_default_sort name |
| Context: | http, server, location |
| Description: | Defines sorting criterion by default. |
| Syntax: | fancyindex_css_href uri |
|---|---|
| Default: | fancyindex_css_href "" |
| Context: | http, server, location |
| Description: | Allows inserting a link to a CSS style sheet in generated listings. The
provided uri parameter will be inserted as-is in a <link> HTML tag.
The link is inserted after the built-in CSS rules, so you can override the
default styles. |
| Syntax: | fancyindex_exact_size [on | off] |
|---|---|
| Default: | fancyindex_exact_size on |
| Context: | http, server, location |
| Description: | Defines how to represent file sizes in the directory listing; either accurately, or rounding off to the kilobyte, the megabyte and the gigabyte. |
| Syntax: | fancyindex_name_length length |
|---|---|
| Default: | fancyindex_name_length 50 |
| Context: | http, server, location |
| Description: | Defines the maximum file name length limit in bytes. |
| Syntax: | fancyindex_footer path |
|---|---|
| Default: | fancyindex_footer "" |
| Context: | http, server, location |
| Description: | Specifies which file should be inserted at the foot of directory listings. If set to an empty string, the default footer supplied by the module will be sent. |
Note
Using this directive needs the ngx_http_addition_module built into Nginx.
Warning
When inserting custom header/footer a subrequest will be issued so potentially any URL can be used as source for them. Although it will work with external URLs, only using internal ones is supported. External URLs are totally untested and using them will make Nginx block while waiting for the subrequest to complete. If you feel like external header/footer is a must-have for you, please let me know.
| Syntax: | fancyindex_header path |
|---|---|
| Default: | fancyindex_header "" |
| Context: | http, server, location |
| Description: | Specifies which file should be inserted at the head of directory listings. If set to an empty string, the default header supplied by the module will be sent. |
Note
Using this directive needs the ngx_http_addition_module built into Nginx.
| Syntax: | fancyindex_ignore string1 [string2 [... stringN]] |
|---|---|
| Default: | No default. |
| Context: | http, server, location |
| Description: | Specifies a list of file names which will be not be shown in generated listings. If Nginx was built with PCRE support strings are interpreted as regular expressions. |
| Syntax: | fancyindex_hide_symlinks [on | off] |
|---|---|
| Default: | fancyindex_hide_symlinks off |
| Context: | http, server, location |
| Description: | When enabled, generated listings will not contain symbolic links. |
| Syntax: | fancyindex_localtime [on | off] |
|---|---|
| Default: | fancyindex_localtime off |
| Context: | http, server, location |
| Description: | Enables showing file times as local time. Default is “off” (GMT time). |
| Syntax: | fancyindex_time_format string |
|---|---|
| Default: | fancyindex_time_format "%Y-%b-%d %H:%M" |
| Context: | http, server, location |
| Description: | Format string used for timestamps. The format specifiers are a subset of those supported by the strftime function, and the behavior is locale-independent (for example, day and month names are always in English). The supported formats are:
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