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poopship21

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Registered: 2009-05-13

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apache automatically showing contents of document root [SOLVED]

i have noticed that visiting an apache host sometimes shows a directory tree of the home folder (ie /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/ or /srv/http/).  on a new installation it simply says "It worked".  renaming the index.html on a new installation and restarting the server results in the same message.  i would like to know how to get apache to show the contents of document root.
TIA

Last edited by poopship21 (2009-08-03 21:02:12)

litemotiv

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Re: apache automatically showing contents of document root [SOLVED]

Options Indexes

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poopship21

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Registered: 2009-05-13

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Re: apache automatically showing contents of document root [SOLVED]

my options directive for document root looks like this:

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks

this directory contains multiple .html files and is made world executable via:

$ sudo chmod 755 htdocs/

initial navigation to document root yielded the following message:

It works!

after renaming the existing index.html in order to test the index:

$ sudo mv <document root>/index.html <document root>/index.html.old

navigation to the document root still gives:

It works!

weird huh?

litemotiv

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Re: apache automatically showing contents of document root [SOLVED]

you could try removing the index.html(.old) altogether?

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poopship21

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Registered: 2009-05-13

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Re: apache automatically showing contents of document root [SOLVED]

well that worked.  thanks