[CLUE-Tech] Apache Directory Index

[Mike Staver]

Wow, I thought I knew everything about apache configs, and I learned 
something very important today!  Thanks Chris and Randy for sharing that 
info!

Randy Arabie wrote:

>On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Chris K. Chew wrote:
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>>I think it is the AddDescription directive inside the <Directory> tag of
>>your httpd.conf
>>
>><Directory /www/randysfiles>
>>  AddDescription "This is the newest one" randy.gif
>></Directory>
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>Thanks Chris - that works.  Wildcards work too, I did the following:
>
>	<Directory /www/randysfiles>
>		AddDescription "Adobe Portable Document Format" *.pdf
>	</Directory>
>
>Now all the PDF files have that description associated with them.
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>>From: clue-tech-admin at clue.denver.co.us
>>[mailto:clue-tech-admin at clue.denver.co.us]On Behalf Of Randy Arabie
>>Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 8:19 AM
>>To: Clue Tech
>>Subject: [CLUE-Tech] Apache Directory Index
>>
>>
>>When Apache shows the index of a directory it presents four
>>columns: Name, Last modified, Size, and Description.
>>
>>What controls what appears in the Description column?
>>
>>Is it the mime-type settings in httpd.conf?
>>
>>If I have a directory where I place files for download, and I
>>allow clients to see the index of files, how can I configure
>>apache so that meaningfull descriptions are presented?
>>
>>--
>>Cheerio!
>>
>>Randy
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