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| --><title>mod_dir - Apache HTTP Server</title><link href="../style/manual.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"/></head><body><blockquote><div align="center"><img alt="[APACHE DOCUMENTATION]" src="../images/sub.gif"/><h3>Apache HTTP Server Version 2.0</h3></div><h1 align="center">Apache Module mod_dir</h1><table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#cccccc"><tr><td><table bgcolor="#ffffff"><tr><td valign="top"><span class="help">Description:</span></td><td><description>Provides for "trailing slash" redirects and |
| serving directory index files</description></td></tr><tr><td><a href="module-dict.html#Status" class="help">Status:</a></td><td>Base</td></tr><tr><td><a href="module-dict.html#ModuleIdentifier" class="help">Module Identifier:</a></td><td>dir_module</td></tr></table></td></tr></table><h2>Summary</h2><summary> |
| <p>The index of a directory can come from one of two sources:</p> |
| |
| <ul> |
| <li>A file written by the user, typically called |
| <code>index.html</code>. The <a href="#directoryindex" class="directive"><code class="directive">DirectoryIndex</code></a> directive sets the |
| name of this file. This is controlled by |
| <code><a href="mod_dir.html">mod_dir</a></code>.</li> |
| |
| <li>Otherwise, a listing generated by the server. This is |
| provided by <code><a href="mod_autoindex.html">mod_autoindex</a></code>.</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p>The two functions are separated so that you can completely |
| remove (or replace) automatic index generation should you want |
| to.</p> |
| |
| <p>A "trailing slash" redirect is issued when the server |
| receives a request for a URL |
| <code>http://servername/foo/dirname</code> where |
| <code>dirname</code> is a directory. Directories require a |
| trailing slash, so <code><a href="mod_dir.html">mod_dir</a></code> issues a redirect to |
| <code>http://servername/foo/dirname/</code>.</p> |
| </summary><h2>Directives</h2><ul><li><a href="#directoryindex">DirectoryIndex</a></li></ul><hr/><h2><a name="DirectoryIndex">DirectoryIndex</a> <a name="directoryindex">Directive</a></h2><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" border="0" bgcolor="#cccccc"><tr><td><table bgcolor="#ffffff"><tr><td><strong>Description: </strong></td><td>List of resources to look for when the client requests |
| a directory</td></tr><tr><td><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax" class="help">Syntax:</a></td><td><syntax>DirectoryIndex |
| <em>local-url</em> [<em>local-url</em>] ...</syntax></td></tr><tr><td><a href="directive-dict.html#Default" class="help">Default:</a></td><td><code>DirectoryIndex index.html</code></td></tr><tr><td><a href="directive-dict.html#Context" class="help">Context:</a></td><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr><tr><td><a href="directive-dict.html#Override" class="help">Override:</a></td><td>Indexes</td></tr><tr><td><a href="directive-dict.html#Status" class="help">Status:</a></td><td>Base</td></tr><tr><td><a href="directive-dict.html#Module" class="help">Module:</a></td><td>mod_dir</td></tr></table></td></tr></table><usage> |
| <p>The <code class="directive">DirectoryIndex</code> directive sets the |
| list of resources to look for, when the client requests an index |
| of the directory by specifying a / at the end of the a directory |
| name. <em>Local-url</em> is the (%-encoded) URL of a document on |
| the server relative to the requested directory; it is usually the |
| name of a file in the directory. Several URLs may be given, in |
| which case the server will return the first one that it finds. If |
| none of the resources exist and the <code>Indexes</code> option is |
| set, the server will generate its own listing of the |
| directory.</p> |
| |
| <blockquote><table cellpadding="10"><tr><td bgcolor="#eeeeee"><p align="center"><strong>Example</strong></p><code> |
| DirectoryIndex index.html |
| </code></td></tr></table></blockquote> |
| |
| <p>then a request for <code>http://myserver/docs/</code> would |
| return <code>http://myserver/docs/index.html</code> if it |
| exists, or would list the directory if it did not.</p> |
| |
| <p>Note that the documents do not need to be relative to the |
| directory;</p> |
| |
| <blockquote><table cellpadding="10"><tr><td bgcolor="#eeeeee"><code>DirectoryIndex index.html index.txt /cgi-bin/index.pl</code></td></tr></table></blockquote> |
| <p>would cause the CGI script <code>/cgi-bin/index.pl</code> to be |
| executed if neither <code>index.html</code> or |
| <code>index.txt</code> existed in a directory.</p> |
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