Description Tag

How to add a description to an 'Index Of' page

[elbartouk89]

Hi

Just made my website 'open' as they say for the public to view my files which are on the server. I have no index page or anything and have made an .htaccess file with the Option +Indexes inside it. It is therefore an 'Index Of/' page...

I have the Name, Last Modified and Size filled for my files but the Description part is blank. How do i create a Description for it?

Thanks in advance, EB

[jdMorgan]

EB,

Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

Are you looking for the AddDescription [httpd.apache.org] directive of mod_autoindex?

Jim

[elbartouk89]

Yes, that's the one! I knew it was done through the .htaccess but didn't know what to type!

Thanks so much Jim :D

[elbartouk89]

HI again, I've got the description working but the size is too small. I read somewhere that you can increase the byte size but I'm not sure where to put it or what to put...

Options Indexes
IndexOptions FancyIndexing
HeaderName header.html
ReadmeName footer.html
IndexIgnore header.html footer.html astats webcam robots.txt .htaccess
AddDescription "College Assignment" .html

That's my .htaccess, can anyone help?

Thanks, EB

[jdMorgan]

I believe you'll find the answer in the same document I linked to above. See DescriptionWidth under IndexOption.

Jim

[elbartouk89]

Yep, thanks again!