How to enable a directory listing in Apache web server [closed]

See if you are able to access/list the '/icons/' directory. This is useful to test the behavior of "Directory" in Apache.

For example: You might be having the below configuration by default in your httpd.conf file. So hit the URL IP:Port/icons/ and see if it lists the icons or not. You can also try by putting the 'directory/folder' inside the 'var/www/icons'.

Alias /icons/ "/var/www/icons/"<Directory "/var/www/icons">    Options Indexes MultiViews    AllowOverride None    Require all granted</Directory>

If it does work, then you can cross-check or modify your custom directory configuration with the '<Directory "/var/www/icons">' configuration.

According to the Apache documentation, found here, the DirectoryIndex directive needs to be specified in the site .conf file (typically found in /etc/apache2/sites-available on Linux).

Quoting from the documentation, it reads:

If no file from the DirectoryIndex directive can be located in thedirectory, then mod_autoindex can generate a listing of the directorycontents. This is turned on and off using the Options directive. Forexample, to turn on directory listings for a particular directory, youcan use:

<Directory /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/listme>  Options +Indexes</Directory>

To prevent directory listings (for security purposes, for example),you should remove the Indexes keyword from every Options directive inyour configuration file. Or to prevent them only for a singledirectory, you can use:

<Directory /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/dontlistme>  Options -Indexes</Directory>

Try this.

<Directory "/home/userx/Downloads">  Options +Indexes  AllowOverride all  Order allow,deny   Allow from all   Require all granted</Directory>

If that doesn't work, you probably have 'deny indexes' somewhere that's overriding your config.