Editing Apache directory listing

Craig321 · 25 Jun 2006 at 23:31

Hi,

Is there any way I can put something below the Apache directory listing please? (The page you see when an index hasn't been uploaded).

I am able to put something there using README.html but is there any way I can do it globally so it's applied to every single folder ?

Thanks,
Craig.

Craig321 · 28 Jun 2006 at 17:46

Bump!

M0KUJ1N · 28 Jun 2006 at 19:39

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_autoindex.html

Craig321 · 28 Jun 2006 at 20:46

M0KUJ1N said:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_autoindex.html

Can't find what I'm looking for on there

Basically I want a README.html to be shown in every directory without having to add it (the README.html file as in when you add it it shows below the directory listing).

Thanks,
Craig.

M0KUJ1N · 28 Jun 2006 at 21:18

What about seting the ReadmeName directive in httpd.conf? (Which is mentioned in that page btw)
I'm no Apache whiz but AFAICT that should have the desired effect.

Craig321 · 28 Jun 2006 at 21:21

Well it said that when I set ReadmeName if I put a / at the beginning of the URL then it'll find that file from the document root, so I tested it using ReadmeName /include/README.html and when README.html was inserted into the include directory in the users account it did work.

So I tried doing this:
ReadmeName home/mainaccount/readme_global.html and then checking if it worked by going to a normal account, but it did not work

Craig.

M0KUJ1N · 28 Jun 2006 at 21:29

Craig321 said:
Well it said that when I set ReadmeName if I put a / at the beginning of the URL then it'll find that file from the document root, so I tested it using ReadmeName /include/README.html and when README.html was inserted into the include directory in the users account it did work.

Which user's account?

Craig321 said:
So I tried doing this:
ReadmeName home/mainaccount/readme_global.html and then checking if it worked by going to a normal account, but it did not work

Craig.

OK, don't you mean /home and second, do all users have read access to that file? It sounds like a straightforward permissions issues tbh

Craig321 · 28 Jun 2006 at 21:31

Well, I also tried this:

ReadmeName /home/mainaccount/public_html/global_readme.html so that'll have all the permissions correct but that did not work either

M0KUJ1N said:
Which user's account?

Any users account, I just want there to be a global README.html that's shown on every single accounts directory listing.

M0KUJ1N · 28 Jun 2006 at 21:35

not neccessarily, try chmod a+r'ing that file

Craig321 · 28 Jun 2006 at 21:36

CHMOD on the file is 777

M0KUJ1N · 28 Jun 2006 at 21:48

Hmm

The only other thing I can think of off the top of my head is that the apache service needs to be restart to parse the new httpd.conf file. If its not that it might be worth getting this moved across to the HTML+Programming forums as there may be people with more experience of configuring Apache than myself on there.

Craig321 · 28 Jun 2006 at 21:49

Have been rebooting Apache every time >.<

Craig321 · 28 Jun 2006 at 21:59

Right, I did a little test and found this:

So I set the ReadmeName like this:
ReadmeName /home/mainaccount/public_html/readme_global.html and rebooted Apache but the readme still wasn't being shown globally.

So I made the folders /home/mainaccount/public_html/ in a normal user directory and uploaded readme_global.html in to that folder. The footer then appeared and it worked perfectly, so I'm not doing it right

--Edit--
So I tried it without the beginning slash as it said in the Apache page that I was linked to that if you start the dir with a slash then it'll look for that file within the document root meaning the folders would have to be made inside the users folder to make it work. I rebooted after I took the beginning slash out yet it still only worked if I made the folders in the user directory.

--Another edit--
So I tried again, this time using the URL ../mainaccount/public_html/readme_global.html instead. If that did work it'd only work for the main page of the account it wouldn't work for deeper directories. I tried anyway but it still didn't work

Craig.