Re-designing the default "Index of /" page when no

[diana777]

Hello Forum Members,
Does anyone know if it's possible to re-design the default "Index of/directoryname" page that resutls when there is no index.html file in a directory?

Thanks for your comments, and Happy New Year!

Diana

[Mac 5]

You could 301 redirect to another page.

What are you wanting the viewer to see or do if you don't want to put up a page named index.html.

[Faglork]

Originally Posted by diana777

Hello Forum Members,
Does anyone know if it's possible to re-design the default "Index of/directoryname" page that resutls when there is no index.html file in a directory?

This is not "default" behaviour - it is dependent on your virtual server configuration and can - if the server config allows that - be changed via a .htaccess file.

See
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_autoindex.html
and
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod...directoryindex
for possible configurations.

For security reasons, the server should NOT show directory contents by default. You may want to check this with your hosting company.

hth,
faglork

[diana777]

Thank you for your responses. I'll check out the .htaccess possibility.

What are you wanting the viewer to see or do if you don't want to put up a page named index.html

I have a script which allows the visitor to login via a username and password to a specific directory and upload videos to that directory for clients to view.

To keep things simple, I would rather change the appearance of the server's default "Index of/" page than have the visitor upload to a directory, then have to click another link at the index page to access the upload directory.

Thank you both,
Diana

[Mac 5]

I'd still probably put up a index.html page that explains who you are, instructions, etc, then press a button to login and upload the videos. They could also login via FTP and drop them that way.

I don't know how to configue the server the way you are describing, maybe your hosting company can help.