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The mod_autoindex module is used for automatic directory listings.

All of these options can be added in a virtual host section, a directory section, or in the main configuration section. These can be added to the bottom of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file.

To add comments for all files of the same type, add:

AddDescription "This is a text file" .txt

This would add the description "This is a text file" to any file that ended in the .txt extension.

To add a description for a particular file:

AddDescription "Our financial report" docs/finances.txt

This would add the description "Our financial report" to the docs/finances.txt file.

To have the index ignore some files, add:

IndexIgnore  docs/hidden.txt

Now when the directory listing of docs is viewed, it will not show the file hidden.txt.

For other available options see http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_autoindex.html.