Is there a way to define your own autoindex pages in nginx?
I want to add my own HTML and CSS to the generated autoindex pages.
Using XSLT is possible to customize autoindex's xml output using the xslt module:
location / {
autoindex on;
autoindex_format xml;
xslt_stylesheet /path/to/custom.xslt
}
It's what I did on this project: ngx-superbindex
Same answer as gibatronic: harness the power of xslt! Have a look at this sample xslt file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<h3>Dafshabbat</h3>
<table border="0">
<tr bgcolor="#9acd32">
<th>name</th>
<th>size</th>
<th>date</th>
</tr>
<xsl:for-each select="list/*">
<xsl:sort select="mtime"/>
<xsl:variable name="name">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="size">
<xsl:if test="string-length(@size) > 0">
<xsl:if test="number(@size) > 0">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="round(@size div 1024) < 1"><xsl:value-of select="@size" /></xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="round(@size div 1048576) < 1"><xsl:value-of select="format-number((@size div 1024), '0.0')" />K</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise><xsl:value-of select="format-number((@size div 1048576), '0.00')" />M</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="date">
<xsl:value-of select="substring(@mtime,9,2)"/>-<xsl:value-of select="substring(@mtime,6,2)"/>-<xsl:value-of select="substring(@mtime,1,4)"/><xsl:text> </xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="substring(@mtime,12,2)"/>:<xsl:value-of select="substring(@mtime,15,2)"/>:<xsl:value-of select="substring(@mtime,18,2)"/>
</xsl:variable>
<tr>
<td><a href="{$name}"><xsl:value-of select="."/></a></td>
<td align="right"><xsl:value-of select="$size"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="$date"/></td>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
What I particularly like is the ability to sort by date, defined here with: <xsl:sort select="mtime"/>
It certainly requires more effort to setup compared to adding a couple of directives in a .htaccess file. And, xml files are cumbersome to write and read. However, the customization potential is great and very nice to have!
See an introductory tutorial on w3schools.
The existence of the Fancy Index module would suggest that the built-in autoindex module has no customisation ability. I'm not sure if I'd recommend the fancy index module, though -- it doesn't look like it's particularly up-to-date (last edited 2007...)
turns out you can add valid html with the http addition module.
i don't claim to understand it fully, but there's a repository that does exactly what you want, so you can try and go from there.
You could also try h5ai:
They provide a really nice interface for browsing the files.
