apache hacks??

[Jeremy_North]

Hi all,
IM not sure if its possible to do this, has anyone an idea?

Basically, I want my browser to display a directory index when connecting to my site, rather than the default index.php.

I have the following folder structure:

-HTML
-- includes
-- Images

When I point my browser (firefox) at www.mysite.com/includes I get a directory index.

When I point my browser at www.mysite.com (defaulting to the HTML directory) I get the results of running index.php.

Is it possible to get a directory index of HTML without removing or renaming index.php? If so how?

I suspect this may have to do entirely with my server. Im running Apache 1.3.34

Many Thanks
Jeremy

[dotnotwhat]

Apache's DirectoryIndex directive controls what the default index for a directory request will be.

Usually set in httpd.conf to something like:-

DirectoryIndex index.html index.php index.shtml

If any of these files exist in a directory, one will be used instead of a directory listing. You can edit httpd.conf and remove index.php (restart Apache) so that it doesn't get automatically called, but this will effect all sites and all site directories. You could use it in just a virtual site container or even a .htaccess to apply it to a more specific location such as just one directory.

Unfortunately, I don't think the directive in a .htaccess would override the directive as set in httpd.conf (you can add new filenames, just don't know if you can remove them).

Without removing index.php from DirectoryIndex globally and then adding 'DirectoryIndex index.php' in just the folders you want index.php to be used, I don't what else you could do.

Could you just rename index.php to something else? Or maybe get index.php to check the URL and show a directory listing if index.php was not in the URL. You could get PHP to generate a listing using opendir() and readdir() functions.

[ace21]

You need to edit the line in your apache conf file that designates what the default page to display is. I am not sure what line it is in that version of apache is but if you open the config file and do a find on index.php it should take you directly to it. Just remove the index.php and that should give you a directory display instead of the file index.php. Also don't forget to restart your server after you make the change.

ace21

[Jeremy_North]

Thanks for the pointers folks.
I was hoping I could do it with out editing the apache confs. Im begging to realize that this may not be possible.
Thanks!
Jeremy

[justsomeone]

The other option is to rename your index.php to something else...

[Threehearts]

Hi.

Why not use the file functions in PHP?
I'm using this to display a list of pdf files via a website...

functions:

function func_generate_filelist($arg_path, $arg_pattern){

$var_search = $arg_path . $arg_pattern;
$arr_filelist = glob($var_search);

return($arr_filelist);

}

function func_wzkalk_bestaetigung($arg_requested_service, $arg_statement, $arg_condition){

if($arg_requested_service == 'pdf_list'){
// Suchen nach dem vom Aufruf übergebenen Muster für Dateinamen in dem ebenfalls übergebenen
// Unterverzeichnuispfad

	// Achtung, ein Teil des Pfades kommt vom Aufruf!
	$var_path = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].$arg_statement;
	$arr_filelist = func_generate_filelist($var_path, $arg_condition);

	for($counter_filelist = 0; $counter_filelist < sizeof($arr_filelist);  $counter_filelist++){

		$arr_current_pathinfo = pathinfo($arr_filelist[$counter_filelist]);
		$arr_indicator = explode("-", $arr_current_pathinfo["basename"]);
		if(in_array("ABW", $arr_indicator)){
			echo "ABW: <a href='" .$arr_current_pathinfo["basename"]. "' target='_blank'> " . $arr_current_pathinfo["basename"] . "</a><br>";
		}elseif(in_array("WZB", $arr_indicator)){
			echo "WZB: <a href='" .$arr_current_pathinfo["basename"]. "' target='_blank'> " . $arr_current_pathinfo["basename"] . "</a><br>";
		}

	}
	return(true);
}

}

function call: searching for PDFs only
<?php
// Liste der pdfs -> pfad: von document root weg
func_wzkalk_bestaetigung('pdf_list', '/path_name/', '*.pdf');
?>

No need to mess with serverwide settings this way and you can disclose file types as you need them instead of simply putting out everything.
I copied the thing here as I use it, so you'll have to modify the thing, but basically it works. If you something souldntwork for you however, post it and I'll correct the stuff so I does work for you as well.

greetings, jakob