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mod_dir.c file, and
is compiled in by default. It provides for "trailing slash" redirects and
serving directory index files.
index.html.
The DirectoryIndex directive sets
the name of this file.
This is controlled by mod_dir.
mod_autoindex.
A "trailing slash" redirect is issued when the server receives a
request for a URL http://servername/foo/dirname where
dirname is a directory. Directories require a trailing
slash, so mod_dir issues a redirect to
http://servername/foo/dirname/.
DirectoryIndex index.html
The DirectoryIndex directive sets the list of resources to look for,
when the client requests an index of the directory by specifying a /
at the end of the a directory name. Local-url is the
(%-encoded) URL of a document on the server relative to the requested
directory; it is usually the name of a file in the directory. Several
URLs may be given, in which case the server will return the first one
that it finds. If none of the resources exist and the
Indexes option is set, the server will generate its own
listing of the directory.
Example:
DirectoryIndex index.html
http://myserver/docs/ would return
http://myserver/docs/index.html if it exists, or would list
the directory if it did not. Note that the documents do not need to be relative to the directory;
DirectoryIndex index.html index.txt /cgi-bin/index.pl/cgi-bin/index.pl to be executed
if neither index.html or index.txt existed in
a directory.
