a question about the directoryindex directive

[Preston Hagar]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Scott Berry <scottbb1973 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> I am wondering where does the directoryindex directive need to go
> in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf.  I am having a problem where Drupal5 is
> not loading when I type:
>
> http://localhost/install.php
> or
> http://127.0.0.1/install.php.
>
> I think I have the problem narrowed down to the fact that it does not
> know that Apache2 is looking for php script and Apache2 is not aware of
> this.  Also what would the example be?  Is it something like:
>
> <directoryindex>
> directoryindex index.php
>
> Thanks for the help.
> Scott Berry
> MCP and A Plus Certified
> scottbb1973 at gmail.com
>

Mine is in the apache2.conf file towards the bottom.  I don't know
that it matters a great deal exactly where in the file it is.
Depending on your needs and how your server is setup, you can put it
in apache2.conf as an overall server config, or in a VirtualHost block
for a specific virtual host.  You can also put it in a specific
Directory block.

Mine is server-wide and looks like this:

DirectoryIndex index.rhtml index.html index.rsp index.psp index.php
index.pl index.htm index.php

They should work in order of appearance, so for example, with my
config above, it will first look for an index.rhtml followed by
index.html, then index.rsp and so on.

Here is a good link with more info:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_dir.html

Preston