<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type" /> <!-- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX This file is generated from xml source: DO NOT EDIT XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX --> <title>mod_dir - Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4</title> <link href="../style/css/manual.css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" title="Main stylesheet" /> <link href="../style/css/manual-loose-100pc.css" rel="alternate stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" title="No Sidebar - Default font size" /> <link href="../style/css/manual-print.css" rel="stylesheet" media="print" type="text/css" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../style/css/prettify.css" /> <script src="../style/scripts/prettify.min.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <link href="../images/favicon.ico" rel="shortcut icon" /></head> <body> <div id="page-header"> <p class="menu"><a href="../mod/">Modules</a> | <a href="../mod/directives.html">Directives</a> | <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/FAQ">FAQ</a> | <a href="../glossary.html">Glossary</a> | <a href="../sitemap.html">Sitemap</a></p> <p class="apache">Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4</p> <img alt="" src="../images/feather.png" /></div> <div class="up"><a href="./"><img title="<-" alt="<-" src="../images/left.gif" /></a></div> <div id="path"> <a href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/">HTTP Server</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/">Documentation</a> > <a href="../">Version 2.4</a> > <a href="./">Modules</a></div> <div id="page-content"> <div id="preamble"><h1>Apache Module mod_dir</h1> <div class="toplang"> <p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="../en/mod/mod_dir.html" title="English"> en </a> | <a href="../fr/mod/mod_dir.html" hreflang="fr" rel="alternate" title="Français"> fr </a> | <a href="../ja/mod/mod_dir.html" hreflang="ja" rel="alternate" title="Japanese"> ja </a> | <a href="../ko/mod/mod_dir.html" hreflang="ko" rel="alternate" title="Korean"> ko </a> | <a href="../tr/mod/mod_dir.html" hreflang="tr" rel="alternate" title="Türkçe"> tr </a></p> </div> <table class="module"><tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Provides for "trailing slash" redirects and serving directory index files</td></tr> <tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr> <tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#ModuleIdentifier">Module Identifier:</a></th><td>dir_module</td></tr> <tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#SourceFile">Source File:</a></th><td>mod_dir.c</td></tr></table> <h3>Summary</h3> <p>The index of a directory can come from one of two sources:</p> <ul> <li>A file written by the user, typically called <code>index.html</code>. The <code class="directive"><a href="#directoryindex">DirectoryIndex</a></code> directive sets the name of this file. This is controlled by <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_dir.html">mod_dir</a></code>.</li> <li>Otherwise, a listing generated by the server. This is provided by <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_autoindex.html">mod_autoindex</a></code>.</li> </ul> <p>The two functions are separated so that you can completely remove (or replace) automatic index generation should you want to.</p> <p>A "trailing slash" redirect is issued when the server receives a request for a URL <code>http://servername/foo/dirname</code> where <code>dirname</code> is a directory. Directories require a trailing slash, so <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_dir.html">mod_dir</a></code> issues a redirect to <code>http://servername/foo/dirname/</code>.</p> </div> <div id="quickview"><a href="https://www.apache.org/foundation/contributing.html" class="badge"><img src="https://www.apache.org/images/SupportApache-small.png" alt="Support Apache!" /></a><h3 class="directives">Directives</h3> <ul id="toc"> <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#directorycheckhandler">DirectoryCheckHandler</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#directoryindex">DirectoryIndex</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#directoryindexredirect">DirectoryIndexRedirect</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#directoryslash">DirectorySlash</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#fallbackresource">FallbackResource</a></li> </ul> <h3>Bugfix checklist</h3><ul class="seealso"><li><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/CHANGES_2.4">httpd changelog</a></li><li><a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=__open__&list_id=144532&product=Apache%20httpd-2&query_format=specific&order=changeddate%20DESC%2Cpriority%2Cbug_severity&component=mod_dir">Known issues</a></li><li><a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Apache%20httpd-2&component=mod_dir">Report a bug</a></li></ul><h3>See also</h3> <ul class="seealso"> <li><a href="#comments_section">Comments</a></li></ul></div> <div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div> <div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="DirectoryCheckHandler" id="DirectoryCheckHandler">DirectoryCheckHandler</a> <a name="directorycheckhandler" id="directorycheckhandler">Directive</a></h2> <table class="directive"> <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Toggle how this module responds when another handler is configured</td></tr> <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>DirectoryCheckHandler On|Off</code></td></tr> <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>DirectoryCheckHandler Off</code></td></tr> <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr> <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>Indexes</td></tr> <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr> <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_dir</td></tr> <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in 2.4.8 and later. Releases prior to 2.4 implicitly act as if "DirectoryCheckHandler ON" was specified.</td></tr> </table> <p>The <code class="directive">DirectoryCheckHandler</code> directive determines whether <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_dir.html">mod_dir</a></code> should check for directory indexes or add trailing slashes when some other handler has been configured for the current URL. Handlers can be set by directives such as <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#sethandler">SetHandler</a></code> or by other modules, such as <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code> during per-directory substitutions. </p> <p> In releases prior to 2.4, this module did not take any action if any other handler was configured for a URL. This allows directory indexes to be served even when a <code class="directive">SetHandler</code> directive is specified for an entire directory, but it can also result in some conflicts with modules such as <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code>.</p> </div> <div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div> <div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="DirectoryIndex" id="DirectoryIndex">DirectoryIndex</a> <a name="directoryindex" id="directoryindex">Directive</a></h2> <table class="directive"> <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>List of resources to look for when the client requests a directory</td></tr> <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>DirectoryIndex disabled | <var>local-url</var> [<var>local-url</var>] ...</code></td></tr> <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>DirectoryIndex index.html</code></td></tr> <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr> <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>Indexes</td></tr> <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr> <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_dir</td></tr> </table> <p>The <code class="directive">DirectoryIndex</code> 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 directory name. <var>Local-url</var> 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 <code>Indexes</code> option is set, the server will generate its own listing of the directory.</p> <div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">DirectoryIndex index.html</pre> </div> <p>then a request for <code>http://example.com/docs/</code> would return <code>http://example.com/docs/index.html</code> if it exists, or would list the directory if it did not.</p> <p>Note that the documents do not need to be relative to the directory;</p> <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">DirectoryIndex index.html index.txt /cgi-bin/index.pl</pre> <p>would cause the CGI script <code>/cgi-bin/index.pl</code> to be executed if neither <code>index.html</code> or <code>index.txt</code> existed in a directory.</p> <p>A single argument of "disabled" prevents <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_dir.html">mod_dir</a></code> from searching for an index. An argument of "disabled" will be interpreted literally if it has any arguments before or after it, even if they are "disabled" as well.</p> <p><strong>Note:</strong> Multiple <code class="directive">DirectoryIndex</code> directives within the <a href="../sections.html"><em>same context</em></a> will add to the list of resources to look for rather than replace: </p> <pre class="prettyprint lang-config"># Example A: Set index.html as an index page, then add index.php to that list as well. <Directory "/foo"> DirectoryIndex index.html DirectoryIndex index.php </Directory> # Example B: This is identical to example A, except it's done with a single directive. <Directory "/foo"> DirectoryIndex index.html index.php </Directory> # Example C: To replace the list, you must explicitly reset it first: # In this example, only index.php will remain as an index resource. <Directory "/foo"> DirectoryIndex index.html DirectoryIndex disabled DirectoryIndex index.php </Directory></pre> </div> <div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div> <div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="DirectoryIndexRedirect" id="DirectoryIndexRedirect">DirectoryIndexRedirect</a> <a name="directoryindexredirect" id="directoryindexredirect">Directive</a></h2> <table class="directive"> <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Configures an external redirect for directory indexes. </td></tr> <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>DirectoryIndexRedirect on | off | permanent | temp | seeother | <var>3xx-code</var> </code></td></tr> <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>DirectoryIndexRedirect off</code></td></tr> <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr> <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>Indexes</td></tr> <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr> <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_dir</td></tr> <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in version 2.3.14 and later</td></tr> </table> <p>By default, the <code class="directive">DirectoryIndex</code> is selected and returned transparently to the client. <code class="directive">DirectoryIndexRedirect</code> causes an external redirect to instead be issued.</p> <p>The argument can be:</p> <ul> <li><code>on</code>: issues a 302 redirection to the index resource.</li> <li><code>off</code>: does not issue a redirection. This is the legacy behaviour of mod_dir.</li> <li><code>permanent</code>: issues a 301 (permanent) redirection to the index resource.</li> <li><code>temp</code>: this has the same effect as <code>on</code></li> <li><code>seeother</code>: issues a 303 redirection (also known as "See Other") to the index resource.</li> <li><var>3xx-code</var>: issues a redirection marked by the chosen 3xx code.</li> </ul> <div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">DirectoryIndexRedirect on</pre> </div> <p>A request for <code>http://example.com/docs/</code> would return a temporary redirect to <code>http://example.com/docs/index.html</code> if it exists.</p> </div> <div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div> <div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="DirectorySlash" id="DirectorySlash">DirectorySlash</a> <a name="directoryslash" id="directoryslash">Directive</a></h2> <table class="directive"> <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Toggle trailing slash redirects on or off</td></tr> <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>DirectorySlash On|Off</code></td></tr> <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>DirectorySlash On</code></td></tr> <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr> <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>Indexes</td></tr> <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr> <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_dir</td></tr> </table> <p>The <code class="directive">DirectorySlash</code> directive determines whether <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_dir.html">mod_dir</a></code> should fixup URLs pointing to a directory or not.</p> <p>Typically if a user requests a resource without a trailing slash, which points to a directory, <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_dir.html">mod_dir</a></code> redirects him to the same resource, but <em>with</em> trailing slash for some good reasons:</p> <ul> <li>The user is finally requesting the canonical URL of the resource</li> <li><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_autoindex.html">mod_autoindex</a></code> works correctly. Since it doesn't emit the path in the link, it would point to the wrong path.</li> <li><code class="directive"><a href="#directoryindex">DirectoryIndex</a></code> will be evaluated <em>only</em> for directories requested with trailing slash.</li> <li>Relative URL references inside html pages will work correctly.</li> </ul> <p>If you don't want this effect <em>and</em> the reasons above don't apply to you, you can turn off the redirect as shown below. However, be aware that there are possible security implications to doing this.</p> <pre class="prettyprint lang-config"># see security warning below! <Location "/some/path"> DirectorySlash Off SetHandler some-handler </Location></pre> <div class="warning"><h3>Security Warning</h3> <p>Turning off the trailing slash redirect may result in an information disclosure. Consider a situation where <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_autoindex.html">mod_autoindex</a></code> is active (<code>Options +Indexes</code>) and <code class="directive"><a href="#directoryindex">DirectoryIndex</a></code> is set to a valid resource (say, <code>index.html</code>) and there's no other special handler defined for that URL. In this case a request with a trailing slash would show the <code>index.html</code> file. <strong>But a request without trailing slash would list the directory contents</strong>.</p> </div> <p>Also note that some browsers may erroneously change POST requests into GET (thus discarding POST data) when a redirect is issued.</p> </div> <div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div> <div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="FallbackResource" id="FallbackResource">FallbackResource</a> <a name="fallbackresource" id="fallbackresource">Directive</a></h2> <table class="directive"> <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Define a default URL for requests that don't map to a file</td></tr> <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>FallbackResource disabled | <var>local-url</var></code></td></tr> <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>disabled - httpd will return 404 (Not Found)</code></td></tr> <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr> <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>Indexes</td></tr> <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr> <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_dir</td></tr> <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>The <code>disabled</code> argument is available in version 2.4.4 and later</td></tr> </table> <p>Use this to set a handler for any URL that doesn't map to anything in your filesystem, and would otherwise return HTTP 404 (Not Found). For example</p> <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">FallbackResource /not-404.php</pre> <p>will cause requests for non-existent files to be handled by <code>not-404.php</code>, while requests for files that exist are unaffected.</p> <p>It is frequently desirable to have a single file or resource handle all requests to a particular directory, except those requests that correspond to an existing file or script. This is often referred to as a 'front controller.'</p> <p>In earlier versions of httpd, this effect typically required <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code>, and the use of the <code>-f</code> and <code>-d</code> tests for file and directory existence. This now requires only one line of configuration.</p> <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">FallbackResource /index.php</pre> <p>Existing files, such as images, css files, and so on, will be served normally.</p> <p>Use the <code>disabled</code> argument to disable that feature if inheritance from a parent directory is not desired.</p> <p>In a sub-URI, such as <em>http://example.com/blog/</em> this <em>sub-URI</em> has to be supplied as <var>local-url</var>:</p> <pre class="prettyprint lang-config"><Directory "/web/example.com/htdocs/blog"> FallbackResource /blog/index.php </Directory> <Directory "/web/example.com/htdocs/blog/images"> FallbackResource disabled </Directory></pre> </div> </div> <div class="bottomlang"> <p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="../en/mod/mod_dir.html" title="English"> en </a> | <a href="../fr/mod/mod_dir.html" hreflang="fr" rel="alternate" title="Français"> fr </a> | <a href="../ja/mod/mod_dir.html" hreflang="ja" rel="alternate" title="Japanese"> ja </a> | <a href="../ko/mod/mod_dir.html" hreflang="ko" rel="alternate" title="Korean"> ko </a> | <a href="../tr/mod/mod_dir.html" hreflang="tr" rel="alternate" title="Türkçe"> tr </a></p> </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img src="../images/up.gif" alt="top" /></a></div><div class="section"><h2><a id="comments_section" name="comments_section">Comments</a></h2><div class="warning"><strong>Notice:</strong><br />This is not a Q&A section. 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