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In this tutorial, I’m going to write about a num­ber of things that will be use­ful to you if you have your own web­site host­ing. This art­icle is geared for begin­ners, and requires no pre­requis­ites apart from some com­mon sense! Now, I host nointrigue​.com on a shared Linux server with Blue­host, which means that my web­site shares a phys­ical com­puter with a num­ber of other users. This setup is fairly com­mon, so I’ll be writ­ing with an assump­tion that this is the kind of arrange­ment that you have. I’ll cover some basic, but use­ful, shell com­mands to make your life easier, and explain how to install addi­tional soft­ware on your host.

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If you want to use Apache’s auto­matic index func­tion­al­ity for dir­ect­or­ies, yet have your own cus­tom mes­sages on those index pages, here’s how you do it. Simply add to the .htac­cess file for the dir­ect­ory (cre­ate it if it doesn’t already exist) the fol­low­ing line:

HeaderName HEADER.html

where HEADER.html is the name of a file that con­tains the HTML markup that you want to include at the top of the page. To add con­tent to the bot­tom of the dir­ect­ory list­ing, use:

ReadmeName FOOTER.html

again, repla­cing FOOTER.html with the file that con­tains your desired markup.

There are tech­nical details I won’t go into here; read them in the Apache doc­u­ment­a­tion. I’ve imple­men­ted it here and I intend to do so for the dir­ect­or­ies on my site soon.

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