The-Last-Escape Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 I was on http://www.virginmedia.com and I was loging into my email and some errors happend and then I saw this page and I looked like an apche index you the one that has "Index Of" at the top. I mean what exacltey do a company like that use it for ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 The directory index appears if there is no index (index.html, index.htm, index.php, index.py or whatever the server is configured to use as index page) file. Alternately it may show a 403 Forbidden error if it is turned off. For a production environment it would serve absolutely no purpose, except if the folder's purpose is to hold various files. On a development environment it can be used to, well... see the contents of the folder. That you saw it was probably not intended. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The-Last-Escape Posted May 2, 2007 Author Share Posted May 2, 2007 It also said Apache and the version at the bottom what im asking is why are they using apache though for what exactley ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 Well, Apache is one of the most popular web servers. I'd guess that is in fact is the most popular. Most servers run that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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