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**Category:** Pydio 8\
**Created:** [May 15, 2018, 10:33am UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/sharing-raw-html-files/1098 "2018-05-15T10:33:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:**  [@Signum](https://forum.pydio.com/u/Signum)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 10:33am UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/sharing-raw-html-files/1098/1 "2018-05-15T10:33:39Z")
I would like to share index.html files and linked images using public links. However instead of showing the user-friendly UI it would be great if the external users could just get the index.html displayed. Is there a way to set up a kind of “raw sharing”?
I have tried to say “open in -\> external browser window” which will render HTML in a modal window but not load linked images.
My use case is sharing simple web snippets with CSS and images.
I would appreciate if anyone had a nice idea. I hope that there’s a hidden switch somewhere in the system that I missed.
UPDATE: I tried [https://pydio.com/en/docs/references/plugins/editor/browser/](https://pydio.com/en/docs/references/plugins/editor/browser/) and in the admin panel set it to “New Tab” but that still opens files in a modal.
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**Author:**  [@zayn](https://forum.pydio.com/u/zayn)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 7:44am UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/sharing-raw-html-files/1098/2 "2018-05-21T07:44:49Z")
Hi,
sorry for the late reply i will ask the devs if this is actually possible (share raw HTML files).
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**Author:**  [@Signum](https://forum.pydio.com/u/Signum)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 8:14am UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/sharing-raw-html-files/1098/3 "2018-05-22T08:14:57Z")
Thanks. Much appreciated.
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**Author:**  [@zayn](https://forum.pydio.com/u/zayn)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2018, 7:26am UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/sharing-raw-html-files/1098/4 "2018-05-25T07:26:12Z")
Hi,
i had a conversation with the devs and they told me that it wasn’t really possible, Pydio is served by a webserver but he cannot act as a one too, but you have other ways that i could list you and if you think it serves you well you can follow them :
- You could create a workspace that is pointing to `/var/www/` for example so that you have the ability to edit those pages and then you can display them on your browser
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**Author:**  [@SheldonESA](https://forum.pydio.com/u/SheldonESA)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 2:52pm UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/sharing-raw-html-files/1098/5 "2024-08-19T14:52:07Z")
I don’t suppose anything ever got added or updated in Pydio to address this?
I like Pydio and appreciate all the efforts of the devs, but it seems kinda ludicrous that we have a web based product that has a web server as one of it’s core components, even includes a built-in html editor, yet somehow no way to actually view/display the documents after you’ve edited them. Using Pydio’s html editor. Which is web based.
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**Author:**  [@charles](https://forum.pydio.com/u/charles)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 2:44pm UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/sharing-raw-html-files/1098/6 "2024-09-02T14:44:40Z")
there has been new features added to address this, using the webdav access to public links. Shortly put, you can use a public link as a static website !
If you have shared a folder as a public link (eg. cells/domain.com/public/{linkID}), the folder content is served as http under cells/domain.com/public/{linkID}/dav/ …
See in the admin console \> extensions \> action.share settings, you will find some settings for these, where you will find settings similar to Indexes configuration for web servers.