Hi gyus,

I'd like to be able to browse a given directory on my router through the web browser.

I have CHAOS CALMER (15.05, r46767) installed and LuCI WebUI works fine on http://192.168.1.1/cgi-bin/luci.

But as soon as I type in something different (e.g. /cgi-bin/test) a "Forbidden" message pops out, although I have chmod-ed the folder with 777.

Is it possible to browse the content of a given folder or has anyone used the filebrowser.lua package?

Cheers

I used the file browser before I made my lua ftp server. You can easily make it available to the ui by editing the "/usr/lib/lua/luci/controller/admin/filebrowser.lua".

edit the index function like so ....

function index()
    entry( {"admin", "filebrowser"}, alias("admin", "filebrowser","filebrowser"), _("File Browser"), 20).index = true
    entry( {"admin", "filebrowser","filebrowser"}, template("cbi/filebrowser"), _("Browser"), 3)
end

then just reboot or remove the "/tmp/luci-indexcache" and refresh the browser. As i recall, the functionality was very basic but it was functional

cheers

Thanks for the reply,

I've tested your suggestion, but without visible success

1. Installed uhttpd-mod-lua
2. Replaced the code in /usr/lib/lua/luci/controller/admin/filebrowser.lua
3. Added option lua_prefix '/lua/'
          option lua_handler '/usr/lib/lua/luci/controller/admin/filebrowser.lua'
in the /etc/config/uhttpd file
4. /etc/init.d/uhttpd restart

But when I type http://serverIP/lua This webpage is not available ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED comes out.

Do I need to do anything else or organize the filebrowser files and dirs differently?

Cheers

Just create a symlink to the directory you want to share under /www like this:

# ln -s /path/to/shared/folder /www/sharename

And you can access it like this: http://192.168.1.1/sharename

This has worked tremendously well
Thanks a lot.