Modifying .htaccess to make auto-index directories look more like site

msaz87 posted this at 23:47 — 24th June 2006.

Joined: Jun 2006

Hey,

I'm working on making the apache-generated directory listings (see picture below) look more like my site. I've found a couple articles on the subject.. but am unfamiliar with altering the .htaccess file and putting in the new commands.

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This article: http://www.webpronews.com/expertarticles/expertarticles/wpn-62-20060220ModifyinganAutoIndexedFileListtoMatchyourSitesDesign.html

Tells me to input commands into the .htaccess file.. such as these:

Options Indexes
   IndexOptions FancyIndexing SuppressDescription SuppressHTMLPreamble
   HeaderName header.html
   ReadmeName footer.html
   IndexIgnore header.html footer.html .htaccess

What i'm confused about is how to exactly do this.

My .htaccess file reads like this:

# -FrontPage-

IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
AuthName www.foothillsbaptist.org
AuthUserFile /home/footh4/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /home/footh4/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp

Options Indexes
   IndexOptions FancyIndexing SuppressDescription SuppressHTMLPreamble
   HeaderName header.htm
   ReadmeName footer.htm
   IndexIgnore header.htm footer.htm .htaccess

I uploaded the new .htaccess in both binary and ascii.. neither worked. I added a header.htm and footer.htm in the same directory with nothing but a different background color (hopefully just enough to change the presentation so that i know it's working).

Unfortuntately, no change occured.

Can anyone help?

Thanks.

Busy posted this at 10:51 — 25th June 2006.

He has: 6,151 posts

Joined: May 2001

order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all

is wrong, you need to remove one of the rules, either deny or allow, can't do both

try add
Options +FollowSymlinks
to the top of your .htaccess file

can you access the .htaccess file directly? you aren't stopping people viewing it in the code above but when I tried view it (via url in code) I got a 403 error (forbidden) so something is set somewhere.
Make sure your .htaccess is named properly, some editors change the name to htaccess.txt

msaz87 posted this at 22:33 — 25th June 2006.

They have: 68 posts

Joined: Jun 2006

I was able to get it to work. Thanks very much.

The one follow-up question i have... is how to make one .htaccess file filter its style into all sub-directories. Currently, i have to have copies of my header.htm/footer.htm/.htaccess in every directory.. or else the style doesn't effect it.

Here's my code again:

# -FrontPage-

IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
AuthName www.foothillsbaptist.org
AuthUserFile /home/footh4/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /home/footh4/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp
Options +Indexes
   IndexOptions FancyIndexing SuppressDescription SuppressHTMLPreamble
   HeaderName header.htm
   ReadmeName footer.htm
   IndexIgnore header.htm footer.htm .htaccess
suPHP_ConfigPath /home/footh4/public_html

If you have any ideas, it'd be much appreciated.

Thanks.

Busy posted this at 10:48 — 26th June 2006.

He has: 6,151 posts

Joined: May 2001

try
./header.htm
./footer.htm

or depending how deep your going just the slash which will take it out to the main