HOWTO: Apache index page banner?

Question

I'd like Apache index pages to show my company banner w/ link to homepage on top.

Instead of:

Index of /pub/something

to show

[Company Banner]
Index of /pub/something

I added these lines to .htaccess:

HeaderName HEADER.html 
ReadmeName README.html

and edited HEADER.html to include banner with link but that banner is only shown to /pub and not /pub/dir pages.

THis is what i currently have in .htaccess:

Options +Indexes
HeaderName HEADER.html
ReadmeName README.html

What have you tried? Have you read httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_autoindex.html?
I added these lines to .htaccess: HeaderName HEADER.html ReadmeName README.html and edited HEADER.html to include banner with link but that banner is only shown to /pub and not /pub/dir pages. Any suggestion re this?
In the future, please add such information via an edit to the question, not a comment. That's what the edit button is for :)
Did you by any chance add those lines within a <Directory> context? It'd probably be easier to help you if you could post the whole .htaccess file.

Jenny D · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-30 11:40:43Z

I think I've got it.

You're using a relative path to your HEADER.html and your Readme.html. That makes Apache look for the files within whatever directory you're in.

Instead, the lines should (presumably) read something like this:

HeaderName /pub/HEADER.html
ReadmeName /pub/README.html

(of course, replace "pub" with whatever directory the files are actually in!)

You're welcome; the difference between relative and absolute paths has bitten me in the posterior several times :-)

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