Steps to Modify Apache Directory Listing Style

On your Web hosting account, if a user opens a directory without an index file (index.html, index.php, index.htm, etc.), they will either see a list of the files in that directory or receive a banned warning. They are unable to view the directory’s contents as a result. The rights to display the contents of the folder can be granted or denied. You may also specify the kind of data that will show up on the page in the event that you choose to display the contents.

Generally speaking, we deactivate folder crawling on our servers to increase the security of our customers’ accounts.

Standard Indexing

With the standard indexing, only the file names are displayed when anyone accesses the folder without any other information for the files in that location. For using this type of indexing, add the below lines in a file named .htaccess in the desired folder:

Options +Indexes
IndexOptions -FancyIndexing

Fancy Indexing

With fancy indexing, the files plus additional information is displayed about them such as the date the file is last modified, its size and description. For using this type of indexing, add the below two lines in .htaccess file in the destination folder:

Options +Indexes
IndexOptions +FancyIndexing

No Indexing

In case, you don’t want a folder without an index file on your account to display the list of files located inside it, you can disable the indexing functionality. For this, you need to add the below line in the .htaccess file in the required directory:

Options -Indexes

So, if someone accesses the folder in their browser, they will receive a 403 Forbidden message.

In this way, you can modify the Apache directory listing style.