Displaying directories with no index page
I own example.org and used to host it at Lunar Pages, which I managed myself. Now (cost savings; shared account) BlueHost has the materials and I can only access email.
The material is 15 years old and I created it partly with Front Page and mostly manually with a text editor and ftp. There are three directories without index pages that when accessed used to display an alpha list of the contents and now show a 404. The contents are there, visible when I ftp. There never were index pages for three of the directories - this site is now mostly archival and I don't have development software - and there's no need for them. BlueHost must have made some changes; I can't deal with them directly because this is no longer my account; is there something they can tweak to display directories without an index page?
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(I am competent at the DOS 3.0 level and not with the more recent/sophisticated tools.)
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Hello, You can add the following line to the .htaccess file within the document root to enable directory indexing: Options +Indexes
However, note that your hosting provider may have disabled the ability for accounts to override the default behavior. Thank you.0 -
Working now; thank you! 0 -
I'm happy to see the issue is now resolved. Thank you for updating us with the outcome. 0
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