[NTLUG:Discuss] Website

Richard Humphrey richard at multicam.com
Wed May 21 16:23:41 CDT 2003


OK, stupid newbie question. How/where do i check for directory listing
being turned on?

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On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 16:12, Richard Humphrey wrote:
> I have seen many sites where a person will have RPMS for download and
> the page is usually called INDEX of /RPMS or something to that effect.
> What I want to know is, does apache do this automatically somehow, or
do
> I need to create the .htm file myself and hyperlink the RPMS etc. I
see
> so many  of these that it leads me to believe there is an automated
way
> to accomplish this.

The web server does it, if you have directory list turned on and the
directory is readable by the user the web server is running as.

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