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Asked: 2026-05-13T20:18:54+00:00

This is a fairly simple problem, I’m just not sure exactly how to approach

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This is a fairly simple problem, I’m just not sure exactly how to approach it.

A friend of mine has an open directory on his webserver, and he asked me to make a simple webpage for him which would just display all of the file names, rather than the dates/file sizes/etc. The page would also update when a new file is added into the directory.

So, I guess I’m just looking to be pointed in the right direction on this one. My first guess was just to throw a simple HTML/Javascript page together which would extract all of the file names from the directory with Javascript, then display them on the webpage while linking to the file. Or am I going able this all wrong?

Thanks,
aqzman

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  1. Editorial Team

    JavaScript is a client-side language and really has no way of enumerating files and directories on a web server, without the aid of a server-side script anyway. You need to look into server-side scripting languages such as Python, PHP, and ASP.NET (Windows Server only), to name a few.

    These languages are processed on the server and make changes to (or even create from scratch) a page before it is sent to the client/browser.

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