[users@httpd] Falling off the end of a directory listing

[Paul Leder <sa...@cyconix.com>]

I've spent the last hour Googling this, without success...

Problem: is there some way to allow a directory listing which includes a 
'parent' link, but *only* up to a specified top level?

In more detail, I have a site which is rooted at /var/www/html/foo. 
There are some download files, which I've placed in a directory 
structure at /var/www/html/foo/downloads. The user can reach the 
download directory at http://www.bar.com/downloads.

There is quite a complex directory structure at 'downloads', so I've 
enabled directory listing. The problem is that the user can navigate up 
through the parent links all the way up to /var/www/html/foo, at which 
point they get a canned version of the main site in the download window.

This doesn't really matter if the user entered the downloads URL 
directly in a full-sized browser window; they just see the website. 
However, the normal way to get to the downloads is via a link on the 
site, which opens a small pop-up window. If they navigate up too far in 
this pop-up then they just see a mess.

Ideally, the 'parent' link should disappear when the user reaches 
/var/www/html/foo/downloads.

Any ideas?

Thanks -

Paul

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Re: [users@httpd] Falling off the end of a directory listing

[Paul Leder <sa...@cyconix.com>]

Bob Ionescu wrote:
> 2009/7/22 Paul Leder <sa...@cyconix.com>:
>> Problem: is there some way to allow a directory listing which includes a
>> 'parent' link, but *only* up to a specified top level?
> 
> May be you can restrict
> IndexIgnore .*
> to some folders via DirectoryMatch (don't know if terminating with $
> works to prevent inheritance ^/var/www/html/foo/downloads$)

Thanks - I've just been through this in detail, but I can't get it to 
work. In fact, DirectoryMatch doesn't even work with a '$' - it misses 
the match. I've tried lots of combinations of the basic

<DirectoryMatch "^/var/www/html/foo/downloads$">

with and without the $, the quotes, and the ^, and nothing with the $ 
successfully matches the directory.

I've also tried splitting the lower-level directories off as symlinks, 
but nothing seems to work - IndexIgnore inheritance seems to be unbreakable.

See this bugzilla entry for general whingeing on exactly this:

https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24243

Cheers

-Paul

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Re: [users@httpd] Falling off the end of a directory listing

[Bob Ionescu <bo...@googlemail.com>]

2009/7/22 Paul Leder <sa...@cyconix.com>:
> Problem: is there some way to allow a directory listing which includes a
> 'parent' link, but *only* up to a specified top level?

May be you can restrict
IndexIgnore .*
to some folders via DirectoryMatch (don't know if terminating with $
works to prevent inheritance ^/var/www/html/foo/downloads$)

Bob

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