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How to Modify the Apache Directory Listing for when no index file is present

Austin Lowery
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Introduction

This article provides the steps to customize the Apache Directory Listing.

Please note that the configuration and coding involved in making this customization requires a systems administrator or developer's skill, training, and expertise. cPanel support cannot assist with implementing this kind of customization.

 

Procedure

  1. Log into the cPanel user's cPanel account.
  2. Open the "Indexes" app in the "Advanced" section of cPanel.
    Please note that you must contact your server administrator to enable this feature if it is missing.
  3. Click the "Edit" button for your site's folder.
  4. Select the "Show Filename Only" or "Show Filename and Description" option.
  5. Click the "Save" button.
  6. Access the server's command line as the cPanel user via SSH or "Terminal" in cPanel.
  7. Open the site's .htaccess file in your preferred text editor.
  8. Add the HeaderName directive to the top of the file. 
    HeaderName customIndexListing.html
  9. Save the changes and exit the text editor.
  10. Create the customIndexListing.html file. 
    touch customIndexListing.html
  11. Open the customIndexListing.html file in your preferred text editor.
  12. Add the following to the file. 
    <html>
     <head>
     <title>Directory Title</title>
     </head>
     <body>
     <h1>Directory Title</h1>
  13. Customize the HTML as desired.
    Please note that custom CSS may be included in the <head> section.
  14. Save the changes and exit the text editor.

 

Additional resources

Apache Module mod_autoindex: HeaderName Directive

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