Apache listing folder contents in spite of index.html

Question

Hi,

I have an apache webserver serving 2 URLs. I use VirtualHosts to configure it so that the 2 URLs return different pages (one has docRoot = /www, the other has docRoot = /www/tutorials). The problem is that for a subfolder in the tutorials directory (say /www/tutorials/abc) which contains an index.html, using one URL displays the page as is, whereas the other URL shows the folder contents and does not display the index.html file. Clicking on the index.html works though. Any idea how I can get the index.html file to display automatically (as it should!).

Thanks, Gaurav

Answer 1

You need to add a DirectoryIndex directive to your apache configuration file (such as httpd.conf) for the section where you define your virtual host.

DirectoryIndex index.html