Fancyindex

what is FancyIndex?

The Fancy Index module makes possible the generation of file listings, like the built-in autoindex module does. It provides more potentials than autoindex module which also generates file listing, but possible to alternate CSS qualities of the page. Such as:

1. custom headers
2. custom footers
3. own css stylesheet
4. Allow choosing to sort elements by name (default), modification time, or size; both ascending (default), or descending (new in 0.3.3). (which I haven't tried out, yet. what is this function?)

implementation

1. install nginx on server, I am running a raspberry pi server with Raspian lite.
2. download and install package nginx extras with following command

    sudo apt-get install nginx-extras 

3. after download, edit with text editor the following nginx configuration file in

    /etc/nginx/sites-available/default 

   with following configurations.
4. in server directive, find a directive named location, add the FancyIndex configuration:

location / { fancyindex on; # Enable fancy indexes.
fancyindex_exact_size off;  # Output human-readable file sizes.
} 

afterwards restart nginx by entering

 sudo service nginx restart 

check if the configuration file is updated correctly by entering if nginx fails to restart.

 systemctl status nginx.service