The following reply was made to PR mod_autoindex/1763; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Lars Eilebrecht <Lars.Eilebrecht@unix-ag.org>
To: michael@bizsystems.com, (Apache GNATS) <apbugs@apache.org>
Cc: Subject: Re: mod_autoindex/1763: index.html, index.shtml not picked up fr
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 01:17:45 +0100 (CET)
According to Michael:
> Yes, it is. aaaahhhh. but the solution is (unfortunatly) a dumb
> newbie mistake. I have a
> DirectoryIndex
> directive in a preceeding directory. It appears (from reading docs)
> that this automagicaly propagates to following directories.
Yes, that's how the <Directory> sections are implemented.
> This site is a mirror of a site on a non-apache (ISP) webserver that
> I think is ncsa based. The 'DirectoryIndex' does not propagate to
> following directories on that machine and I just naturally assumed it
> would be the same on my Apache server.
As far as I know the NCSA server should do the same if there's a
DirectoryIndex directives inside a <Directory> section. If it does
not it's a bug.
Regards...
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Lars Eilebrecht
sfx@unix-ag.org
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