HTTP folder list welcome message?

[michaelsanford]

I've seen other sites do this: for a site that has folder listing enabled, they somehow put a welcome message at the top of the page above the listing.

How does one do that? I presume it's a hidden file that resides inside the particular folder...

 

[didde]

Have a look in httpd.conf for Apache (/etc/httpd/httpd.conf) and I believe you will find something in there called "ReadMe" or something. It's basically a switch you can set so that Apache displays a file called "readme.txt" or simular if one does exist in the current directory..

 

[michaelsanford]

Cool! Found it, thanks didde!

#
# ReadmeName is the name of the README file the server will look for by
# default, and append to directory listings.
#
# HeaderName is the name of a file which should be prepended to
# directory indexes.
#
# If MultiViews are amongst the Options in effect, the server will
# first look for name.html and include it if found. If name.html
# doesn't exist, the server will then look for name.txt and include
# it as plaintext if found.
#
ReadmeName README
HeaderName HEADER

 

[Fahrvergnuugen]

ok...I put a README file in a directory...when I go to that dir in my web browser, README isn't display as a file, but it's not showing at the top of the page. is the README file just supposed to be text?

 

[michaelsanford]

No, it reads the extensions.

First it looks for readme.html, then readme.txt

Make sure your files have extensions.