Apache + Grutatxt: The Simplest Possible Website
I envisioned an entire website consisting of nothing but human-readable text files that are converted to HTML by the web server when necessary, with the least amount of extra junk in there. Here's how I did it.
.htaccess (root folder):
Options -Indexes DirectoryIndex index.html index.text Action handle_text /cgi-bin/handle_text.cgi AddHandler handle_text .text
This allows you to mix html and "text" content, which is converted to HTML by Grutatxt.
/cgi-bin/handle_text.cgi:
#!/bin/bash
echo "Content-type: text/html"
echo
base=`basename $PATH_TRANSLATED`
if [ "$QUERY_STRING" = "" ]; then
echo "<HTML><BODY>"
cat $PATH_TRANSLATED | grutatxt -nb
echo "<br><br><small><i>"
echo "Generated with <a href='"
echo "http://www.triptico.com/software/grutatxt.html"
echo "'>Grutatxt</a>. View <a href='$base?SOURCE'>page source</a>"
echo "</i></small></BODY></HTML>"
else
echo "<html><body><small>"
# The confusing sed stuff just displays ampersands and brackets.
cat $PATH_TRANSLATED | sed 's/&/\&/g;s/</\</g;s/>/\>/g' |
while read L; do
echo "$L<br>"
done
echo "</small></body></html>"
fi
/index.text (any folder)
I'm an auto-grutatxt'ed HTML page -----
And here is a body paragraph!