Enable directory/file listing in XAMPP

Question

How to enable directory and file listing in XAMPP ? In WAMP it is by default enabled.

Answer 1

Open apache/conf/httpd.conf and search for Indexes in httpd.conf And comment complete line like this:

#Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
#Options  - Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI

Uncommenting First will enable the indexing of directories. Uncommenting Second will disable indexing of directories Removing the comment will enable the Directory/file listing of hosted path.

Answer 2

Rename the 'index.php' file that sits in your htdocs folder to something like 'MODIFIED_index.php' (if you want to be able to revert to it later) - this index.php file is only used to point to xampp's admin controls that are found in 'localhost/xampp/' anyway.

Answer 3

There is a XAMPP Directory Browsing UI app, that will help you to browse projects inside htdocs in XAMPP.

Answer 4

My Xampp httpd.conf already had the Indexes option under the xampp directory entry Removing all the default #comment lines, it looks like this:

<Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

But, I have my local root mapped to a different directory, outside of 'htdocs', (as per this post Make XAMPP/Apache serve file outside of htdocs ) so to enable this for all directories, I had to find the entry just above that, and add the word "Indexes" to it.

<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks Indexes
    AllowOverride None
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
</Directory>

Note I would never enable this for all directories on a production server, but locally it is quite useful.

Answer 5

Just delete or rename index.html and index.php files