How do I change the default ReadmeName for Apache directory indexes?
I have a readme file in the root of my site example.com/README.html which I want to display as the readme file for Apache directory indexes unless the directory has it's own README.html file. Is this possible?
Example;
With the directory structure
-/
-/folder1/
-/folder1/README.html
-/folder2/
-/README.html
example.com/ should display example.com/README.html in it's directory index,
example.com/folder1/ should display example.com/folder1/README.html,
example.com/folder2/ should display example.com/README.html
I can set
ReadmeName README.html
in my config, but that will display "Apache Server at example.com Port 80" in the footer of the directory index for example.com/folder2/
Likewise I can set
ReadmeName /README.html
but that will ignore the README.html in folder1/
Did any of that make sense? I'm not doing very well to explain this =)
Best Answer
I don't think you can do this globally. You can though specify a ReadmeName in the vhost/server context which points to a server wide file e.g.
This can be overridden per directory with a .htaccess file
From the Documentation
This works on an Ubuntu system I have to hand.