I have a bunch of plain text recipe files on a NAS. If a family member wants to cook something, they ask me to print them a copy.
I’m looking for a simple as possible way to put them on a local web server via a Docker image or similar.
Basically all I need is to have http://recipes.local/ show the list of files, then you can click one to view and or print it.
Don’t want logins. Don’t need ability to edit files. Want something read-only I can set and forget while I continue to manage the content directly on the NAS.
What would you suggest?
I use dufs. Copyparty seems good too.
Caddy has this feature built-in. It looks nice too.
recipes.local { root * /srv file_server }https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/directives/file_server
There’s also File Browser.
Install Nginx, add
autoindex on;to the default site config, throw the files into/var/www/htmlor whatever default folder it uses, and delete the defaultindex.htmlfile. If you need to do it via Docker then use the official Nginx image https://hub.docker.com/_/nginxYou could also just share the files via SMB. Easy to use on a PC - you could configure their computers to mount the share as a network drive on boot (e.g.
R:, for recipes). Not sure about other phones but the built-in files app on my Galaxy S25 Ultra supports SMB too.I already have SMB but want something easier for non tech family members.
Nginx sounds like the way to go and just symlink www -> recipes
Thanks.
Based on OPs requirements, this is the answer
A web server with directory listing enabled would work fine for that.
sandstorm is dead simple to host and crazy secure.
it handles user accounts for you and there are lots of apps to serve files or track text files.
it rocks.
why not copyparty?
Copy files and do a
python3 -m http.serverVery simple and does the job.
Not quite what you want, but I am a huge fan of mealie.
Are you referring to mealie-recipes/mealie?
Yes, that. It’s a bit much, but it’s really easy to use.
Came here to say the same thing. More than OP is asking for, but it’s fantastic.
Just used it to import a recipe, tweak it, and then I made it. Big fan of mealie.
I bet it would do a decent job of parsing those text files.
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