Directory Listing

[David Callaghan]

Hi

I've just joined tesco broadband.

I've come from NTL.

If I don't put an index.htm on my NTL home page it justs lists the
files in there when any browser visites my page.

If I don't put an index.htm on my Tesco home page, I get a:

"Error 403"
"You don't have permission to view the requested page."

Is there some code I can put into an index.htm file which will return
the directory of the site? At present, I'm going to have to upload a
new index.htm each time I change the directory structure - users just
want to go to the files I have uploade there.

Thanks

David Callaghan

[David Dorward]

David Callaghan wrote:

(snip description of what happens when you have Options +Indexes in Apache)

Is there some code I can put into an index.htm file which will return
the directory of the site?

No. HTML is just data, although it can contain client side code - but client
side code can't find out anything about the server that the server doesn't
export.

If you had mod_perl, CGI, PHP or similar then you could do this with that.

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[Lachlan Hunt]

David Callaghan wrote:

I've just joined tesco broadband.

I've come from NTL.
I don't know what tesco or NTL are, but I'm going to assume they're both
ISPs that you have used to host your website. You should really be more
clear about these things in the future.
If I don't put an index.htm on my NTL home page it justs lists the
files in there when any browser visites my page.

If I don't put an index.htm on my Tesco home page, I get a:

"Error 403"
"You don't have permission to view the requested page."

That is controlled by the server configuration files, not by the markup
in any HTML file. If you are using Apache, adding a .htaccess file with
this Options directive will allow a directory listing.

Options Indexes

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#options

However, this is really off topic for an HTML newsgroup, try an Apache
group or another group for whatever type of server your host is using.

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"David Callaghan" <in***********@btinternet.com> wrote in
news:11**********************@c13g2000cwb.googlegr oups.com:

Hi

I've just joined tesco broadband.

I've come from NTL.

most users round here are not UK ;)
If I don't put an index.htm on my NTL home page it justs lists the
files in there when any browser visites my page.
means NTL allows directory browsing/listing - bad start.
If I don't put an index.htm on my Tesco home page, I get a:

"Error 403"
"You don't have permission to view the requested page." means Tesco does not allow the above. Good for them.

Is there some code I can put into an index.htm file which will return
the directory of the site? At present, I'm going to have to upload a
new index.htm each time I change the directory structure - users just
want to go to the files I have uploade there. no - .htm files are client side only. Unless Tesco allows some cgi, which
you'd have to ask about. So, yes you'll need an update to your manual
listing page. Perhaps you need to evaluate what service you're actually
wanting from them - you might actually run into issues with bandwidth on
this kinfd of thing anyway?
Thanks

David Callaghan