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Serving static websites using Tonido

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Tonido is chockful of features you may or may not know about. For example,  Tonido has built-in support for serving static HTML websites easily.

To do this:

  1. Create a folder, say “public“, drop in all your HTML files, images, CSS in that folder.
  2. Open Webshare Application, select the public folder and create a new share called “website
  3. Assuming your start page is index.html, then your website location is at http://<TONIDOURL>/app/webshare/share/website/index.html
  4. Send the URL to your friends and family along with the access URL

It is that simple. Now you can host your own websites using Tonido.

Author: madhan

Madhan Kanagavel, is Founder and Chief Hacker behind CodeLathe. Madhan has a masters degree in control systems and distributed agents, spent many years working on diverse systems and technology, built popular open source products and is now an entrepreneur. He has spent half his life building cool things with computers and has no plans to stop doing so.

One Comment

  1. How does one publish similarly on a TonidoPlug with external USB Flash Memory mapped on /media/usb0 ?
    I did create a share, but unable to see it. TonidoPlug indicates timeout error.

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