Topic: Directory Description

[Bobscrachy]

I tried this in my htaccess file with no luck.

[James Blond]

Only create in the specific folder a file HEADER.html in the HEADER.html write your Description. Done. (Work only if there is no index file)

[Bobscrachy]

[James Blond]

READ THE MANUAL
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_autoindex.html#headername

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_autoindex.html#adddescription

[Bobscrachy]

[James Blond]

OK! Now I know what you don't understand!
Apache itself include the content of the HEADER.html to the HTML output from the directority when Apache reads a folder / directority
if you have a README.html into the folder Apache will append the HTML to the output.

example

[Bobscrachy]

Ok i have the header.html. From what i understand i can specify any html file to be my header using the HeaderName filename put into an htaccess file.

So assigning descriptions becomes a part of the html. And we do this by using the <title> tag inside the html file. Right? Wrong because i added a title and meta test tag to my HEADER.html file and it didn't give me a description.

Im also confused about that bit you said about switching to the README.html. What do you need to edit the README aka footer for adding a description. The footer just adds html to the bottom of the page.

On that example i see the README.html is assigned as the FOOTER. I also see descriptions but i still don't understand where they are assigned. Is it in the HEADER file?

So im back to asking you how this is done.

[James Blond]

Hm, you want to change the <title>my Title</title> or do you want to change the path which is shown?

Create the output yourself with PHP, than you can control everything
Here is the code to do that

[Bobscrachy]

Ok you've given me something like three answers and im obviously too dense to understand any of them.



I won't even try to guess what im suppose to do with that php file. I put it on the server as a asdf.php and it came out gibberish. Keep in mind here im not a server guru.

[James Blond]

AddDescription "string" file|directory [file|directory]

AddDescription "httpd project" /path

can be set in httpd.conf or .htaccess

was in my second link!
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_autoindex.html#adddescription

[Bobscrachy]

Ive done it with files before but i haven't been able to get it done with folders. This was the nature of my original question.

AddDescription "test" hostedbybrain.gif works

Its probably a syntax problem.

AddDescription "test" crypto
AddDescription "test" /crypto
AddDescription "test" C:/Apache2/htdocs/crypto
AddDescription "test" /htdocs/crypto

Does not work

[Steffen]

From the Apache documentation:


AddDescription Directive

This sets the description to display for a file, for FancyIndexing. File is a file extension, partial filename, wild-card expression or full filename for files to describe. String is enclosed in double quotes (").


No mention of folders, seems not to work with folders.

[Bobscrachy]

Well they're doing it on that apache mirror that James Bond posted before.

[pnllan]

Bob,

I think that James was indicating that you can use something similiar to the PHP file that he list in conjunction with the Apache directive HeaderName, not as a standalone file.

[Bobscrachy]

[Bobscrachy]

After all this time i finally figured out how to do this.

AddDescription "blaw blaw" name of directory (not path)