From 30521b6056a35d6744a4805fc76bc26ce887f8b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aidan <i@aidxn.fun>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 10:29:25 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] add documentation, gitignore entry for archive dir

---
 .gitignore |  5 ++++-
 README.md  | 26 +++++++++++++++-----------
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 8086401..ca7c341 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,4 +2,7 @@
 .idea/
 
 # public directory
-public/
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+public/
+
+# archives directory
+src/archives/
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 530b44a..ade35ea 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -9,22 +9,26 @@ There are two self-hosted options, depending on your situation. For my purposes,
 1. **Use self script**
 The `self` script can help you establish a public/ folder, where code can be served to. At this time, it doesn't do anything but move the files over as of now. This script is only supported on Linux hosts.
 
-To use the self script, you must do the following:
+    To use the self script, you must do the following:
 
-**a.**  Allow execution of self script
+    **a.**  Allow execution of self script
 
-```shell
-chmod +x self
-```
+    ```shell
+    chmod +x self
+    ```
 
-**b.** Start server
+    **b.** Start server
 
-```shell
-./self start
-```
+    ```shell
+    ./self start
+    ```
 
-You may also use `./self help` (this script does not provide therapy services) to view other available commands.
+    You may also use `./self help` (this script does not provide therapy services) to view other available commands.
 
 2. **Use the static files**
 
-You may also opt to copy the src/ folder to another location, such as /var/www/html, so it can be served static with a web server such as Apache2 or NGINX.
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+    You may also opt to copy the src/ folder to another location, such as /var/www/html, so it can be served static with a web server such as Apache2 or NGINX.
+
+# Serve custom files
+
+If you would like to host your own files, simply place them in `./src/archives`, and they will be served at the same location mine are. Keep in mind, you may not use the same directory structure, and will have to update the menu links.
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