I am trying to build a simple photo portfolio site which posts all images in a directory. I don’t want to have to rewrite the html every time I add new photos. I’m very new to web development though so I don’t really know what I’m doing, but I have a little bit of coding experience. My primary chal…

@jaredwhite @perry Ok I finally figured this out. This was much easier in php than using a static site generator. Turns out all I had to do was: -Write my site in php doing what I needed to do (which was like 4 lines of code) -Add a build.sh file with two lines: #!/bin/sh \ php index.php > “index…

hi there, this thread should answer your question: [image] Is there a directory listing feature? Support Is there a way to setup a folder so if there is no index.html file present, the server responds with a listing of the contents of that folder?

@perry Thanks very much for the reply. I did come across that but I was still a bit confused. I wanted a solution that happens at time of Netlifys build. When mjgs says he updated his static site generator, is that not on his end before Netlify builds the site? I don’t have a static site generator e…

@disjunction You can create an index page listing all images in a folder pretty easily in Bridgetown ( documentation here ), and it doesn’t require needing to know much more than basic HTML. I imagine something similar could be done with Eleventy or Hugo. I personally think Gatsby would be way too com…

@jaredwhite Thanks! I’ll look into Bridgetown then to start. Gatsby did seem a bit much for this.

awesome! thanks for sharing your approach - i’m sure that will help other folks who are attempting the same thing :slight_smile:

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perry May 8, 2020, 1:05am 2

hi there, this thread should answer your question:

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Is there a directory listing feature? Support deployment	3	1420	March 30, 2020
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