Product Information
What is H5ai?
h5ai · Modern HTTP Web Server Indexing for Apache httpd, lighttpd, nginx, and Cherokee.
Features
Numerous optional extensions and configuration options allow for customizing the web appearance of directory listings. All markup is valid HTML5, combined with CSS3 and top-tier JavaScript to create a fresh yet minimal user interface, focusing the user experience on your files.
Some optional features include:
- Sorting by name, date, or size
- Different view modes and icon sizes
- Localization in multiple languages included
- Breadcrumbs and tree view for faster navigation
- Custom headers and/or footers per directory
- Filtering displayed files and folders
- Calculating folder sizes
- Automatic refresh of folder contents
- Packaged downloads for selected items (supports tar and zip)
- QR codes on hover for files
- Thumbnails for images, videos, and PDFs
- Preview for images and text files (including Markdown rendering)
- Audio and video previews (dependent on browser and codec support)
How to use H5ai?
H5ai is a modern HTTP web server index used to beautify and enhance directory listings for servers like Apache, lighttpd, nginx, and Cherokee, offering a file-centric and clean user interface.
Core Functions of H5ai
HTTP Server
Usage Scenarios of H5ai
- Sort files by name, date, or size.
- Choose different view modes and icon sizes.
- Quickly navigate directories via breadcrumb navigation and tree view.
- Filter displayed files and folders.
- Download selected content in packages (supports tar and zip).
- Preview images, videos, PDFs, text, and audio files.
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