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I'm running Apache and I'm getting really tired of editing hundreds of files which are all named index.html. What I'd like is something like this:

/root/foo
    DirectoryIndex: foo.html

/root/bar
    DirectoryIndex: bar.html

/root/bar/narf
    DirectoryIndex: narf.html

...but automatically, for all of my directories. Is there a way to do this in Apache?

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  • httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_dir.html#directoryindex would suggest not, but I can't help wondering why you're going about it the way you are... – Andy Smith Dec 20 '10 at 1:00
  • ...at the moment my text editor has five tabs open that are all named "index.html", which is not terribly easy to navigate. I'm not really wedded to using DirectoryIndex if there's a better way to accomplish this. – Ender Dec 20 '10 at 1:43
  • Have you considered using a text editor that allows you to use most of the path name in the tabs? Or not having each directory contain an index.html file that you actively work with? – Andrew M. Dec 20 '10 at 5:12
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From your comment that you're not wedded to the idea of DirectoryIndex, I bet you could accomplish the same feat with mod_rewrite. Something like 

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f               
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 
RewriteRule ^/(.*)/(.*)$ http://mysite.com/$1/$2/$2.html [L]

The above isn't tested, just a general idea that you want to get the entire path and supply the last folder name as the .html file if the requested filename doesn't exist. As I said not tested out for exact syntax for getting the directory path.

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