1 Apache + Grutatxt: The Simplest Possible Website 2 ================================================ 3 4 By http://gweb.org (Geoffrey Plitt) 5 6 I envisioned an entire website consisting of nothing but human-readable 7 text files that are converted to HTML by the web server when necessary, 8 with the least amount of extra junk in there. Here's how I did it. 9 10 .htaccess (root folder): 11 ------------------------ 12 Options -Indexes 13 DirectoryIndex index.html index.text 14 Action handle_text /cgi-bin/handle_text.cgi 15 AddHandler handle_text .text 16 17 This allows you to mix html and "text" content, which is converted to HTML 18 by Grutatxt. 19 20 /cgi-bin/handle_text.cgi: 21 ------------------------- 22 #!/bin/bash 23 echo "Content-type: text/html" 24 echo 25 base=`basename $PATH_TRANSLATED` 26 if [ "$QUERY_STRING" = "" ]; then 27 echo "<HTML><BODY>" 28 cat $PATH_TRANSLATED | grutatxt -nb 29 echo "<br><br><small><i>" 30 echo "Generated with <a href='" 31 echo "http://www.triptico.com/software/grutatxt.html" 32 echo "'>Grutatxt</a>. View <a href='$base?SOURCE'>page source</a>" 33 echo "</i></small></BODY></HTML>" 34 else 35 echo "<html><body><small>" 36 # The confusing sed stuff just displays ampersands and brackets. 37 cat $PATH_TRANSLATED | sed 's/&/\&/g;s/</\</g;s/>/\>/g' | 38 while read L; do 39 echo "$L<br>" 40 done 41 echo "</small></body></html>" 42 fi 43 44 /index.text (any folder) 45 ----------------------- 46 I'm an auto-grutatxt'ed HTML page 47 ----- 48 49 And here is a body paragraph! 50