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by RyanZAG 4486 days ago
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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I understood exactly the same as you.

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

Yes, this is mod_autoindex, right?
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.
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.
Apache, SSH, and/or rsync all support forms of that.