DirectoryIndex, and other commands for the htaccess file???

External Since: Jul 25, 2003 Posts: 8

I'm on a shared host (Apache/RedHat), and I'm new with setting up various
directories for my files.

I've created an htaccess file in the root, and I've set up most of my web
site files under "/httpdocs".
Inside that htaccess file, I've added "DirectoryIndex /httpdocs/index.htm"
In the httpdocs directory, I also have my other site directories, my other
htm linked files, and the directories that contain the images for all of my
htm files.

I was wondering if there are any other commands that I can add to the
htaccess file where it will look for the other directories, htm files, and
images within the httpdocs directory and it's sub directories?

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External Since: Jul 02, 2003 Posts: 52

On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 20:04:46 -0400, The Other Guy responded to a post
from "John B." <jbarrington.DeleteThis@comcast.non> who wrote in
alt.apache.configuration:

>I'm on a shared host (Apache/RedHat), and I'm new with setting up various
>directories for my files.
>
>I've created an htaccess file in the root, and I've set up most of my web
>site files under "/httpdocs".
>Inside that htaccess file, I've added "DirectoryIndex /httpdocs/index.htm"
>In the httpdocs directory, I also have my other site directories, my other
>htm linked files, and the directories that contain the images for all of my
>htm files.
>
>I was wondering if there are any other commands that I can add to the
>htaccess file where it will look for the other directories, htm files, and
>images within the httpdocs directory and it's sub directories?

In the httpdocs directory htaccess, put:
DirectoryIndex index.htm other_index_file.name etc.filename

note the last two are just examples. But if the other directories have
an index.htm file there is no need to put anything more. But if you
had an index.html in one for the index/main page in a subdirectory, or
an index.php, and so on, just put them in the list as my example
shows.

It doesn't matter what you put in the list really. If there are two
files in the same directory that are in the list, the one nearer the
beginning would be served in that order (i.e, index.htm would be
served and not other_index_file.name, if both were in the same
folder).

<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_dir.html#directoryindex" target="_blank">http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_dir.html#directoryindex</a>

HTH
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