serve “normal” HTML pages from a Sharepoint server

Question

I have a document authored in HTML with a TOC index page linking to numerous other pages, some having imgs etc. In other words, standard web content.

My work location uses Sharepoint exclusively for document exchange.

Is there a way to upload/import my HTML document into Sharepoint? It seems to only allow for upload single file document types like Word or Excel.

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Thanks for the replies.

While there is a server, I only have access to it as sharepoint user. When I ask the corporate IT folks about load this document to a web server, they keep telling me to load to sharepoint. Attempts to explain further are met with blank stares by most, the single one that gets my need says she doesn't have a simple web server for me to use nor does she grog how to do it using sharepoint (SP is not her area of expertise).

The aspect of just uploading to sharepoint that I didn't make clear in the original that is not clear to me and that my local IT folks can't quite grasp is subdirectories. The layout of the web doc is roughly:

/
/index.html 
/page/
      /one.html
      /two.html
/images/
      /pic1.png
      /pic2.png

...and so forth.

Without re-authoring all links, can I put this into sharepoint?

Thanks again for any information.

Answer 1

You can upload your static HTML into any document library and it will work. Make sure you use relative URLs throughout to save yourself a lot of pain. CSS and images will display however you may have security issues with JavaScript.

Using SharePoint to store this information probably isn't the best idea unless you want to use its version control (or some other SharePoint-specific) functionality. Make sure there is a good business case or it will be much simpler to just host it as alpha1 has suggested.

Answer 2

if you have a server, just host it there..in its own directory or something.

Answer 3

"Without re-authoring all links, can I put this into sharepoint?"

No, sorry. You either need to redo your links to reflect the fact that your site's web root is a library in SharePoint, or you need to put that site elsewhere.

If you put the site elsewhere, you can use the Web Page Viewer webpart to display it in SharePoint.

Finally, which SharePoint Designer you can build files into the root of a site, but I wouldn't do that. I very much think all your documents (including HTML) should be in a library. You would still need to fix the links.