Customizing web directory page

Question

I recently went to a webpage and noticed their directory page was customized.

putlocker.is/featured/

NOT

putlocker.is/featured

How would I costumize this on an Apache sever?

What do you mean it's customized? I don't see anything special about the webpage you linked to. Do you mean it doesn't directly link to a file name? — Adam, Jul 07 '14 at 15:29
It's a folder in the root called "featured"... Just add a folder. — Kodlee Yin, Jul 07 '14 at 15:30
@Adam That is the non-custumized directory. Go to said webpage to see customized directory. — Krii, Jul 07 '14 at 15:37

Quentin · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-07T15:43:28.697

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The URL you provide almost certainly isn't an Apache directory index (although there are some directives which can customise those, such as IndexStyleSheet). To achieve a custom page when a URL with a / on the end is requested then, given a vanilla Apache configuration:

Put an HTML document in that directory with a filename that is in the list specified by the DirectoryIndex directive. Usually this will include index.html.

You can also use a file that will generate HTML programmatically (such as PHP on a system with PHP installed) or divert the request (e.g. using ScriptAlias or mod_rewrite) to another program (which might use the front controller pattern).

Here is an example to use Catalyst for this purpose, you then define your URLs using Catalyst actions.

edited Jul 07 '14 at 15:43

answered Jul 07 '14 at 15:36

Quentin

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@Krii — See the parenthesized section of the first sentence, and all the other directives on the page I linked to from it. – Quentin Jul 07 '14 at 15:44
index.html works. Thanks. – Krii Jul 07 '14 at 15:51

Customizing web directory page

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