Dumb question for a dumb user on Apache Configuration

On my old HTTP server I used to be able to type in the root URL and it
would give me a list of the files there (the one with the Parent
Directory link at the top).

How do I configure Apache (2.0.54) to do this?

Thanks

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Maltelec wrote:
> On my old HTTP server I used to be able to type in the root URL and it
> would give me a list of the files there (the one with the Parent
> Directory link at the top).
>
> How do I configure Apache (2.0.54) to do this?

That's generally called the "Index" option. You need to do two things:

- - ensure that "Options Indexes" is on in that directory.
- - ensure that you do NOT have a file in that directory matching any of
the resources given in a "DirectoryIndex" directive e.g. "index.html".
If there is, Apache will show it, instead of generating the index.

You can look both directives up in the Apache documentation ("/manual"
in a standard installation).
- --
Jim Patterson
Ottawa, Ont
CANADA
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