Being amazed by software development

Re:Being amazed by software development by RyanZAG on Sunday March 02, 2014 @06:26AM (#7328722)

This is the most confusing thing I've seen all week. I don't actually understand what problem this is solving. Is this not equivalent to taking your html files, putting them in /var/www and then starting up apache ?

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Re:Being amazed by software development by ronaldx on Sunday March 02, 2014 @06:43AM (#7328771)

I understood exactly the same as you.

This doesn't exist as a service because it's the default thing that apache does.

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Re:Being amazed by software development by buzzkills on Sunday March 02, 2014 @07:02AM (#7328831)

Yes, this is mod_autoindex, right?

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Re:Being amazed by software development by ricardobeat on Sunday March 02, 2014 @07:41AM (#7328945)

I don't get the point either, how is POSTing JSON + a zip file easier than using scp/rsync to copy html to the server? I guess the author has a very specific/restricted environment that the post fails to describe.

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Re:Being amazed by software development by kayoone on Sunday March 02, 2014 @07:05AM (#7328838)

it seems to also enable POSTing new docs and DELETEing them but yeah, if this is meant to be self-hosted anyway, i am missing the point.

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Re:Being amazed by software development by cmelbye on Sunday March 02, 2014 @07:19AM (#7328877)

Apache, SSH, and/or rsync all support forms of that.

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