Disable directory but not file listings in httpd.conf

Beorn1357 · 05-30-2014, 12:22 AM

I have apache running on a file server. One particular directory stores complete webpages saved from a browser. Thus there are .html, .htm, .php type files with corresponding directory names. For example, a webpage article saved to the directory has a file named, "Open Source Software Review.htm", and there is a corresponding "Open Source Software Review" directory containing all of the image files, etc. Clicking on the .html, .htm, and .php files brings up the complete webpage. However, it is not necessary to see the corresponding directories, only the file names.

I've been trying to figure out a directive that would allow only the listing of files, and not the corresponding directories. I've looked through the documentation and have tried various directives without success. Is there any way to do this or perhaps to only see certain file types and not directories or other file types? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

bathory · 05-30-2014, 03:22 AM

Hi,

I'm afraid that your only option is to use the IndexIgnore directive with all the directories you want to hide

Code:

IndexIgnore "Open Source Software Review" "Some Other Directory" "Another Directory"

Regards

Beorn1357 · 05-31-2014, 04:40 AM

Unfortunately that won't work out for what I'm trying to do. I don't want to be editing the httpd.conf file every time a user adds a webpage to the directory, just to clean up the appearance of the listing. I know there isn't any directive that would allow me to do what I'm trying to accomplish directly. I was hoping there might be some creative solution. I noticed several directives that allow for regular expressions for example. I suppose if I really wanted to solve the problem with the IndexIgnore that I could write a short script to run a directory listing and parse the results into the httpd.conf using the IndexIgnore directive on some sort of a 5 minute cron job, but I really hate solutions so overthought.

Well in the big picture, this isn't that big a deal. It really is just a cosmetic problem in the first place. I just thought I'd throw it out there on the hopes that someone had already run across this and had a ready solution. I do appreciate your reply Bathory even if it wasn't what I am looking for.