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Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 09:58:41 +0100
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Thread-Topic: [users@httpd] DirectoryIndex for all directories
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From: "Boyle Owen" <Owen.Boyle@swx.com>
To: <users@httpd.apache.org>
Subject: RE: [users@httpd] DirectoryIndex for all directories

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Andrea [mailto:software@polin.it]
>
>What I found strange is that under my win2000 pc I have
>
>/.htaccess
>DirectoryIndex /index.htm
>(Note that I specified a / before index.htm )
>
>So If I try to call
>servername/
>servername/path/
>servername/path/to/
>servername/path/to/etc/
>
>the script that is called is always
>servername/index.htm

Hang on! - that's right. What I said earlier about the symlinks is
unnecessary... 

	DirectoryIndex /index.htm

This should work in all cases (just checked the docs :-).

>if I change .htaccess as
>DirectoryIndex index.htm
>(Note I removed the / before index.htm)
>then
>1) servername/
>2) servername/path/
>3) servername/path/to/
>4) servername/path/to/etc/
>for case 2,3,4 listing of directory will be showed
>for case 1 index.htm is showed

Exactly.

>So I don't understand why adding a / before index.htm it 
>worked on my pc and

The "/" at the beginning makes the resource relative to the document
root and not relative to the directory. This is described in the docs
for "DirectoryIndex".

>why it didn't work on his server.

It should have. Are you really sure he did it as you described (did you
*see* his config file?). Is his .htaccess file really in the docroot
directory (and not in one of the subdirs).

Why doesn't he post for himself anyhow?

>
>
>:-) Andrea
>
>p.s.
>We are using Apache 1.3.27
>
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