Apache Directory and index file

Anon

hi,I am getting strange problem.I am running apache on windows 2000. In every directory i have put index.html.But it is ignoring the this file,and showing all the files in a dirctory.Even I tried to put index.php does not help.

Anyone knows how to fix it so apache detect any index file and display it.
Thanks

igebert

You should take a look at your http.conf file. There is a section which looks like that:

<IfModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex index.html
</IfModule>

It should include all filenames you want to have read by Apache as an index file.

However, there is also the possibility to override these settings with another directive, e.g. if you want to have download files displayed instead of an index file.
This will look something like this:

<Directory "E:/Apache/icons">
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

Make sure you do not apply this directive to the whole of your document path (those directives can be read from the http.conf or from .htaccess files in your doc path).

-ingmar

Anon

I have check the file saw it the following code is
ok.I mean no coment on this code.

<IfModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex index.html
</IfModule>

I am new to apache.... the second code i did not understand.

http://localhost/links is not working,i have to type the full site url htt://localhost/links/index.html
It's happening for every directory...

igebert

There is a lot of information in the Apache manual about those things, though not in a very readable quality:
htdocs/manual/configuring.html

All directives, which is certainly the source of your problem, are discussed here:
htdocs/manual/mod/core.html

Now about this directive:
<Directory /usr/local/httpd/htdocs>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
</Directory>

Here is what the manual says:
<Directory> means that all directives included here are only applied to a certain directory (there are a couple of other directives that can enclose directives).

The "Options" directive controls which server features are available in a particular directory.

"Indexes": If a URL which maps to a directory is requested, and the there is no DirectoryIndex (e.g., index.html) in that directory, then the server will return a formatted listing of the directory.

"FollowSymLinks": The server will follow symbolic links in this directory.

You should look that this is not set for the directory where you want to have your index file read by Apache.

I'm not an Apache expert - I don't know why Apache would not look for index.html if you have the directive set as pointed out and do not override it with a location based directive in the http.conf or in another .htaccess file.

Anon

After you edited the directive by adding 'index.html', did you remember to restart Apache for the changes to take effect? That might solve your problem.