How to enable directory listing in apache web server

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I am not able to enable directory listing in my apache web server  I have tried various solutions posted but not working  I just freshly installed httpd 2 4 6 and enabled https using ssl conf under  etc httpd conf d ssl conf dir and trying to access https   server example com  but this is not listing the dir  These are the config in ssl conf  DocumentRoot   home userx Downloads   ServerName server example com 443   Below is what it has in ssl conf under the VirtualHost element  Files and the first Directory elements were already there when I installed  I just added  Directory for   home userx Downloads   I want to browse the contents of  home userx Downloads when I access the URL https   server example com   What am I missing here     lt Files       cgi shtml phtml php3     gt      SSLOptions  StdEnvVars  lt  Files gt   lt Directory   var www cgi-bin  gt      SSLOptions  StdEnvVars  lt  Directory gt   lt Directory   home userx Downloads  gt    Options  Indexes   AllowOverride all  lt  Directory gt

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Try this    lt Directory   home userx Downloads  gt    Options  Indexes   AllowOverride all   Order allow deny    Allow from all    Require all granted  lt  Directory gt    If that doesn t work  you probably have  deny indexes  somewhere that s overriding your config

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Once I changed Options -Index to Options  Index in my conf file  I removed the welcome page and restarted services     sudo rm -f  etc httpd conf d welcome conf   sudo service httpd restart   I was able to see directory listings after that

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One way is by creating a soft link to whichever directory you want to list in the  var www html  directory   sudo ln -s  home   var www html    Keep in mind the security

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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 docs  it reads      If no file from the DirectoryIndex directive can be located in the   directory  then mod autoindex can generate a listing of the directory   contents  This is turned on and off using the Options directive  For   example  to turn on directory listings for a particular directory  you   can use    lt Directory  usr local apache2 htdocs listme gt       Options  Indexes  lt  Directory gt         To prevent directory listings  for security purposes  for example     you should remove the Indexes keyword from every Options directive in   your configuration file  Or to prevent them only for a single   directory  you can use    lt Directory  usr local apache2 htdocs dontlistme gt    Options -Indexes  lt  Directory gt

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This one solved my issue which is SELinux setting   chcon -R -t httpd sys content t  home

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I had to disable selinux to make this work  Note  The system needs to be rebooted for selinux to take effect

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See if you are able to access list the   icons   directory  This is useful to test the behavior of Directory in Apache   for eg   You might be having below config by default in your httpd conf file So hit the url   IP Port icons  and see if it list the icons or not You can also try by putting the  directory folder  inside the  var www icons    Alias  icons    var www icons     lt Directory   var www icons  gt      Options Indexes MultiViews     AllowOverride None     Require all granted  lt  Directory gt    If it does works then you can crosscheck or modify your custom directory configuration with    configuration

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I solved the problem by enabling the mod autoindex from Apache  It was disabled by default   sudo a2enmod autoindex

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