How do I display directories correctly?

aytimothy

• November 21, 2013 18:27

Hi, I'm new to the forums, so please pardon me if I unknowingly posted this in the wrong part of the forum. So, here's the problem: I'm not very sure how the directory system for cPanel works, but when I use my website, I want for example, ie. You want to visit help.html. You should be able to just type domain.com/help, but instead, it shows the domain.com/index.html NOT domain.com/help.html. So, I've did a bit of searching and I've found that people have been claiming that opening the name of a directory opens the index.html in that directory by default: ie. You want to visit help.html. You should be able to just type domain.com/help, but instead it shows domain.com/index.html rather than domain.com/help/index.html OR domain.com/help/help.html. On top of that, I've have a few file-only directories, which on default (before I placed any .html documents onto it) when I typed the website, it listed the contents of .../public_html, but now it doesn't. Everything now just displays .../public_html/index.html or domain.com/index.html. My question is: How do I do that? as I want to make certain directories list their index.html (or redirect to another file ie. domain.com/help goes to domain.com/help.html rather than domain.com/help/index.html)) when it is typed while others simply list their contents?

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  cPanelMichael

  • November 22, 2013 12:22

  Hello :) You can modify the default DirectyIndex value by placing a line in the .htaccess file of the directory you want to modify it for. EX: DirectoryIndex help.html index.html index.php
  The above example would ensure that the "help.html" file will load when the directory is accessed. Thank you.

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  rijo.a

  • November 22, 2013 14:16

  You can remove the index.html from the directory if you want to list the directory contents for the public.

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