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I have created a web site that ( for local use on my computer ) that navigates through the files in the My documents folder via regular links .I would like to change the way my documents folder opens now in such way that if I double click on My documents folder I would like my web to come up and use it as interface .Is there a way to do this ? Thank you Adrian

ADRIAN FLOREA
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  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2773773/make-sure-a-href-local-file-is-opened-outside-of-browser is this a duplicate? btw this would only work for you on your own local PC -- Local Folder – V H Feb 26 '13 at 16:09
  • and if I would like to make it available for others on the LAN? – ADRIAN FLOREA Feb 26 '13 at 19:52
  • How can you if the file resides on a local pc. The only such feature would be to setup a network share where u can access file using machine name folder which is covered on first link I sent u – V H Feb 26 '13 at 21:11
  • Hi ..I am in a LAN ..thank you – ADRIAN FLOREA Feb 27 '13 at 14:40

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Maybe its lack of knowledge on web technologies and browsers.

I am really unsure of the reasons of taking this route - you could try :

<a href=file://///SERVER/folder/file.extension>LAN FILE</a>

but to be honest i am unsure why you can not run a web server on the machine that you wish to serve the pages.

So lets say you have a lan of 3 machines 

10.0.0.1
10.0.0.2
10.0.0.3

You wish to use 10.0.0.1 as the master which servers the pages - install apache web server or IIS if its windows then put a page in the DocumentRoot which points to 

<a href=/somefolder>Some folder</a>

where this /somefolder is a folder within the document root of the default site.

you can then go to the browser on any other LAN hit

http:// 10.0.0.1 and it will show that page with the link which is then viewable on local browser of the remote machines... files being served from 10.0.0.1

You could go a step further and look into internal DNS or hacking the local hosts file on the remaining machine and pointing an entry like

10.0.0.1 intranet

so when any of the machines hit http:// intranet - they hit 10.0.0.1

V H
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  • yes ..it is lack of knowledge..that is why I am here..Thank you..i am learning fast..ok ..so the whole scenario is this ..I have a folder on the my drive that everybody on the LAN currently has access to it.What I am planing to do is that when they double click that specific folder ..I want my web page to open ..instead of the folder contents..this is it ...thank you – ADRIAN FLOREA Feb 27 '13 at 15:44
  • so rather than give out your \\networkname\folder give out a url for them to put into browser which is actually file:///tmp/ so rather than a http url its a file url first get the file url working locally from your machine that connects to your own local machine and loads folder then give out that url – V H Feb 27 '13 at 16:08
  • if they click on the folder using windows it will only show folder view - with its contents if the folder has an index.html page it will show up like any other files - the html files and naming such as index.html etc are all handled /configured by the web server. I would suggest installing and playing around with apache too – V H Feb 27 '13 at 16:09