.htaccess Tutorial - Directory Listing
When a web browser is pointed to a directory on your web site which does not have an index.html file in it, the files in that directory can be listed on a web page.
1. Enable/Disable Directory Listing
To have the web server produce a list of files for such directories, use this line,
Options +Indexes
To have an error (403) returned instead, use this line.
Options -Indexes
2. Listing Style
You can list file in basic list style or fancy list style. A ‘fancy’ list including icons, file size, modification date and more. Following line is used for ‘fancy’ list style in the .htaccess file,
IndexOptions +FancyIndexing
Use following line if you prefer a basic file list.
IndexOptions -FancyIndexing
3. Ignore Files
If you don’t want the web server to list files with exention such as *.txt,*.jpg. Add this line to your .htaccess,
IndexIgnore *.txt *.jpg
4. Modify Index File
To change the default index file, use this line
DirectoryIndex home.html