[Linux-disciples] Apache Directory Listing Problem

[Brian Cooke]

Hi,

I'm trying to get Apache to list contents of a particular directory for 
me.  It's proving to be difficult for me.  Here's what's happening:

Until now, I have not loaded the mod_autoindex module in Apache. If this 
module is disabled, I can't get Directory Listings to work at all -- 
even if I have "Options Indexes" set in my configuration.  I guess my 
first question is whether or not that is expected? The documentation I'm 
reading seems to suggest that all I need is "Options Indexes".

Anyway, when I did enable it, it worked too well -- it enabled directory 
listings for every directory on my whole site. I only wanted directory 
listings for /foo/bar. So I removed "Options Indexes" from the root 
directory and gave it only to the /foo/bar directory. This worked OK for 
/foo/bar (I got a listing there, as I wanted), but when I tried to 
access "/", I got an error message saying I didn't have permission to 
access / on this server. I checked in the error logs and it says 
"Directory index forbidden by rule". I don't understand this. It's 
disabled by rule because I want it to go and look for any one of the 
files I have set up in my DirectoryIndex directive (index.html, 
index.shtml, index.php, etc...) -- which are present. I know this 
because if I turn disable mod_autoindex, the pages listed in 
DirectoryIndex load automatically. But then of course I don't get the 
directory listing for /foo/bar.  Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks,
Brian