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2026.01.27

I managed to ditch the Apache autoindexing on my home server for the 'large file area' (which really needs a better name).
It was fine, but what I really wanted was to get the media subsystem from xbomber.co.uk running on the server.

I tried to get SLIR running on it as well but I ran into trouble with that.
It feels a bit like there might be something funny about PHP's GD extension in my XAMPP installation, but that needs more investigation.

It doesn't matter at the moment because that server is only being used for file listings and videos, rather than images.

I had a cut-down version of xbomber.co.uk's code that runs from the filesystem and PHP and has no database dependency that was used for another project long ago.
It was much easier (infact it was surprisingly easy) to adapt it to run on the home server.

I managed to make some optimisations while I was busy with it.
The PHP is a bit less convoluted in places, which is something that can be implemented into the main site when I have a moment.

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