"GET /logs?M=D HTTP/1.0" 301 314

What does M=D mean?

[twist]

I just found my top result under yahoo to be,

[example.com...]

I have no reference to that on my website so I asked in the yahoo forum and did a search of WW but can't find any answers so I did a search on google for,

inktomisearch ?M=D

and I found some persons logfiles with this in it,

lj2023.inktomisearch.com - - [20/Mar/2005:10:24:48 -0500] "GET /logs?M=D HTTP/1.0" 301 314
lj2023.inktomisearch.com - - [20/Mar/2005:10:24:49 -0500] "GET /logs/?M=D HTTP/1.0" 200 356

Since I saw posts from Jan 2004 with people asking the same question and no answer in the yahoo forum I was hoping someone in this forum might be able to decipher what this means exactly.

[py9jmas]

You are using Apache's automatic index code. Ie there is no index.html, so Apache generates a web page of a directory listing.

If the FancyIndexing option is given with the IndexOptions directive, the column headers are links that control the order of the display. If you select a header link, the listing will be regenerated, sorted by the values in that column. Selecting the same header repeatedly toggles between ascending and descending order. These column header links are suppressed with IndexOptions directive's SuppressColumnSorting option.

M=D is one of the column sorting options, date last Modified, Descending.

[twist]

What should I do, create a 301 from example.com/index.html to example.com?

Why did yahoo do this? I am having trouble understanding what I did or what I need to do.

I have "Options -Indexes", is this the correct way to do it?

[twist]

Looking at this page,

[apache2docs.paradoxical.co.uk...]

it's saying I need to specify a index like so,

DirectoryIndex index.html

but I am referencing my home page like this,

RewriteRule ^$ /filename.php?variable=homepage [L]

and the rest of my files like so,

RewriteRule ^anotherpage$ /filename.php?variable=anotherpage [L]
RewriteRule ^andanotherpage$ /filename.php?variable=andanotherpage [L]

What should I do?