BrettLee.com - CGIndex @etPenguin.com @Subversion-ViewVC @Subversion README Return ( Software ) The purpose of this software package is to deliver a simple way to provide custom directory listings. Below are some examples of how the directory indexing looks and works: Click Here --->  ** FILES & DIRECTORIES ** Click Here --->  ** PHOTOS w/ THUMBNAILS ** This began when I wanted a different look for my default Apache directory listing. In looking closer at Apache's Directory Listings there is "Fancy Indexing," but for me that was not really what I wanted. Looking elsewhere there was: 1. Interesting support for CSS in LIGHTTPD via "mod_dirlisting" 2. Seemingly convoluted ways using JavaScript and CSS 3. A plethera of PHP scripts, all of which seemed to require traversal of the filesystem via the root So I set out to write my own, basing it on the standard Apache directive, DirectoryIndex. Using DirectoryIndex, append a CGI script (/cgi-bin/CGIndex.cgi) to the parameter list, and now there is a custom directory index. All that is left is to write a standard header and footer (called by the script), and all the pages look as desired. In my case I use some OS specific icons for each file to make it more intuitive what the files are with a quick glance. After this was working, I soon realized that for my directories of photos, a nice enhancement would be to display a thumbnail alongside the filename. So, the script also checks to see if a matching filename exists in a relative "thumbnail" directory, and if found, displays it instead of the icon. Naturally, a Perl script to recursively create thumbnails can be found with the CGIndex file at etPenguin.com.