IndexOptions directive

Purpose

This directive specifies whether you want fancy directory indexing (with icons and file sizes) or standard directory indexing, and which options you want active for indexing.

If your documents are being served from an AFS drive, you will want to seriously consider turning fancy indexing off.

Syntax

IndexOptions opt1 opt2...

opt is an option name:

FancyIndexing turns FancyIndexing on
IconsAreLinks makes the icons part of the anchor for the filename
ScanHTMLTitles will cause httpd to fill in the description field of any unknown HTML document with its title (title must be within 256 bytes of the start of the file). You should NOT turn this option on unless your server has CPU time to spare.
SuppressLastModified will cause httpd not to print the last date of modification in index listings.
SuppressSize will cause httpd not to print the size of the files in index listings.
SuppressDescription will cause httpd not to print descriptions for any files.

Only one IndexOptions directive should appear in the configuration file.

Default

If no IndexOptions directive is present, httpd assumes that none of the options should be on.

Example

IndexOptions FancyIndexing IconsAreLinks

This will turn on fancy indexing with icons, and the icons will be part of the links to the files.

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