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html in your directories, you can make links to these pages by just linking to the directory name. Your browser will always pick up index as the main page for that folder. This means you can condense href="folder/index. html" into href="folder/" .
Create a hyperlink to a file on your computerSelect the text or picture that you want to display as a hyperlink. Press Ctrl+K. Under Link to, do one of the following: To link to an existing file, click Existing File or Web Page under Link to, and then find the file in the Look in list or the Current Folder list.
To make a hyperlink in an HTML page, use the <a> and </a> tags, which are the tags used to define the links. The <a> tag indicates where the hyperlink starts and the </a> tag indicates where it ends. Whatever text gets added inside these tags, will work as a hyperlink. Add the URL for the link in the <a href=” ”>.
Do you want to open a shared folder in Windows Explorer? You need to use a file: link, but there are caveats:
file://server/share/folder/).file://///server/share/folder) and the user has disabled the security restriction on file: links in a page served over HTTP. Thankfully IE also accepts the mangled link form.file: link in a page served over HTTP.The URL file://[servername]/[sharename] should open an explorer window to the shared folder on the network.
make sure your folder permissions are set so that a directory listing is allowed then just point your anchor to that folder using chmod 701 (that might be risky though) for example
<a href="./downloads/folder_i_want_to_display/" >Go to downloads page</a>
make sure that you have no index.html any index file on that directory
Using file:///// just doesn't work if security settings are set to even a moderate level.
If you just want users to be able to download/view files* located on a network or share you can set up a Virtual Directory in IIS. On the Properties tab make sure the "A share located on another computer" is selected and the "Connect as..." is an account that can see the network location.
Link to the virtual directory from your webpage (e.g. http://yoursite/yourvirtualdir/) and this will open up a view of the directory in the web browser.
*You can allow write permissions on the virtual directory to allow users to add files but not tried it and assume network permissions would override this setting.
A bit late to the party, but I had to solve this for myself recently, though slightly different, it might still help someone with similar circumstances to my own.
I'm using xampp on a laptop to run a purely local website app on windows. (A very specific environment I know). In this instance, I use a html link to a php file and run:
shell_exec('cd C:\path\to\file');
shell_exec('start .');
This opens a local Windows explorer window.
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