Dead simple document host?

Submitted ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨deegeese@sopuli.xyz⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

I have a bunch of plain text recipe files on a NAS. If a family member wants to cook something, they ask me to print them a copy.

I’m looking for a simple as possible way to put them on a local web server via a Docker image or similar.

Basically all I need is to have recipes.local show the list of files, then you can click one to view and or print it.

Don’t want logins. Don’t need ability to edit files. Want something read-only I can set and forget while I continue to manage the content directly on the NAS.

What would you suggest?

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lorentz@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
Just use the directory listing of your favourite web server. You have a HTTP read only view of a directory and all of its content. If you self host likely you have already a reverse proxy, so it is just matter of updating its configuration. I’m sure it is supported by Apache, Nginx, LightHttpd, and Caddy. But I would expect every webserver supports it. Caddy is the easiest to use if you need to start from scratch.

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dan@upvote.au ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Install Nginx, add autoindex on; to the default site config, then throw the files into /var/www/html or whatever default folder it uses.

You could also just share the files via SMB. Easy to use on a PC - you could configure their computers to mount the share as a network drive on boot. Not sure about other phones but the built-in files app on my Galaxy S25 Ultra supports SMB too.

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- deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I already have SMB but want something easier for non tech family members.
  
  Nginx sounds like the way to go and just symlink www -> recipes
  
  Thanks.
  
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- Luckyfriend222@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Based on OPs requirements, this is the answer
  
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k4j8@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Caddy has this feature built-in. It looks nice too.

recipes.local { root * /srv file_server }

caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/…/file_server

There’s also File Browser.
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cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
A web server with directory listing enabled would work fine for that.

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tatterdemalion@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I use dufs. Copyparty seems good too.

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_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
why not copyparty? then you can even set it up so they can add their own.

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Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Not quite what you want, but I am a huge fan of mealie.

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- AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Came here to say the same thing. More than OP is asking for, but it’s fantastic.
  
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  - curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Just used it to import a recipe, tweak it, and then I made it. Big fan of mealie.
    
    I bet it would do a decent job of parsing those text files.
    
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- undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Are you referring to mealie-recipes/mealie?
  
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  - Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yes, that. It’s a bit much, but it’s really easy to use.
    
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cute_noker@feddit.dk ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
You can go to the folder and do a

python3 -m http.server

Very simple and does the job. Combine with tmux.

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Tramort@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
sandstorm is dead simple to host and crazy secure.

it rocks.

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HelloRoot@lemy.lol ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
sftpgo

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