Apache setting question

boemane

How do I change the Apache settings ?



I want it to recognize .php files by default. As it is now, having a file called index.php and calling the directory its in, makes it give me an index of... page..



.:BoeManE:.

ibrowse

In the folder etc/httpd/ there is a file called httpd.conf. This is the configuration for Apache. You need to find a section that should look like this

Code:

#

# DirectoryIndex: Name of the file or files to use as a pre-written HTML

# directory index. Separate multiple entries with spaces.

#

<IfModule mod_dir.c>

DirectoryIndex index.html

</IfModule>









You need to add one for PHP, but whether it is supposed to look like

Code:

#

# DirectoryIndex: Name of the file or files to use as a pre-written HTML

# directory index. Separate multiple entries with spaces.

#

<IfModule mod_dir.c>

DirectoryIndex index.html index.php

</IfModule>









Or

Code:

#

# DirectoryIndex: Name of the file or files to use as a pre-written HTML

# directory index. Separate multiple entries with spaces.

#

<IfModule mod_dir.c>

DirectoryIndex index.html

</IfModule>



<IfModule mod_dir.c>

DirectoryIndex index.php

</IfModule>









I don't remember. I know that it is fine to have both in there, because I used to and it worked fine.

ibrowse

The second way will work fine.

eugene

Well, the first way is the most practical/popular way to do it.

torifile

I do it the first way, too. I think that the order of the arguments is important. So if you have an index.html and index.php files in the same directory, it'll default to whatever is listed first. I always put my index.php argument first because it's less likely to there "by accident."