Ubuntu 20.04.3 server can Apache be made to render md documents like on GitHub?

[Peter Flynn]

On 12/01/2022 15:35, Bo Berglund wrote:
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> Last time I looked at this it was the case that Apache using some MD
> module

Ah, OK. I haven't seen this. It seemed a lot simpler just to use the plugin.

> would render a file ending in .md using the "converter" for md and 
> send ready-made HTML back to the browser. The problem for me then
> was to figure out how to get it going, it seemed to rely heavily on
> css processing and such.

There seem to be several, and they are third-party contributions.

> But once in place it does not require any browser plug-in, because
> what is returned is plain HTML after conversion.

I'm not sure I'd find this useful. If I'm serving my own .md files, I'm
happy to have them rendered in the browser.

> I don't want to be searching for plug-ins to all the different 
> browsers (for Chrome on PC I have found none working), if it is
> solved server side then there is no need for that.

Valid point, but if you're going to start modifying your Apache with
third-party contributions for which there is no supported Apache
package, you're mostly on your own.

> And another reason I want this is to be able to NOT have to let the 
> browser access the local file system, which is the only way I have
> managed to get it going just now.

I don't see that this is needed if the plugin renders it.

> Right now I have followed the apt install part of the github readme, 
> so Apache is up and running but I don't know (yet) how to proceed.
github is a closed book to me, I'm afraid. You'll have to ask someone
who understand what they are asking for.

Peter