I figured out how to start it (httpd). I got rid of the default page and placed some of my own in /var/www/html/. The problem is that is someone types http://myip/ it will come up with the browse list. In IIS there is an ordered list of documents that it looks for first. For example, I have index.html. Apache should process that instead of listing the dir contents. How do I change this one?

Thx

You're looking for DirectoryIndex, by default it probably looks something like:

DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var

Just add your index pages there, the priority goes from left to right (so if index.html doesn't exist, it looks for index.html.var in the above example)

To disable the listing of your dir content, search for the option DirectoryListing in httpd.conf

I have this same issue and my DirectoryListing looks like this.

DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var

What owner and group should the Apache config files be in. Mine are root / root. Could this cause the problem?

Thought I should post this here also.


I got this working, however, it does not solve the problem.


Situation:

The http.conf calling the default-server.conf which in turn calls the define mind-hosts.conf. I have posted the content of each file except for the http.conf which is for the most part default.
In this mess there has to be a reason why the url without the index.html is showing my directory listing.


Examples:

DEFAULT-SERVER.CONF

#
# Global configuration that will be applicable for all virtual hosts, unless
# deleted here, or overriden elswhere.
#

DocumentRoot "/srv/www/htdocs/hingedmind"
<Directory "/srv/www/htdocs/hingedmind">
Options None
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

Alias /icons/ "/usr/share/apache2/icons/"

<Directory "/usr/share/apache2/icons">
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
UserDir public_html
Include /etc/apache2/mod_userdir.conf
</IfModule>

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/srv/www/cgi-bin/"
<Directory "/srv/www/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -Includes
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

Include /etc/apache2/conf.d/*.conf
Include /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/mind-hosts.conf

# The manual... if it is installed ('?' means it won't complain)
Include /etc/apache2/conf.d/apache2-manual?conf
# YaST auto define section
<IfDefine SSL>
SSLEngine off
</IfDefine>



MIND-HOSTS.CONF


<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin sapient@hingedmind.com
ServerName www.hingedmind.com

DocumentRoot "/srv/www/htdocs/hingedmind"

ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/hingedmind-error_log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/hingedmind-access_log combined

HostnameLookups On

UseCanonicalName Off

ServerSignature On

Include /etc/apache2/conf.d/*.conf

<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
serDir public_html
Include /etc/apache2/mod_userdir.conf
</IfModule>


<Directory "/srv/www/htdocs/hingedmind">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>