That worked like a charm. I changed it to text/html for my purposes though.
have a nice day, Chris Nolan > -----Original Message----- > From: will trillich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 17:33 > To: Chris Nolan; debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: HeaderName in Apache autoindex > > > well i got one promising reply, which i admit i haven't > had time to check out: > > >>>>> > w trillich wrote: > > speaking of autoindex issues-- i can't get apache to > > display the HEADER or README files (above and > > below the tabular file listing), and when i posted > > my most recent question, someone else piped up and > > said they've got the same snag. > > > > is there a configuration that turns off the inclusion > > of plain text header/footer? it seems to be site-wide > > for us... > > Add something like this for the <Directory> sections you want > to have display the header and footer: > > <Files ~ "(README|HEADER)$"> > ForceType text/plain > </Files> > > Apparantly the DefaultType setting isn't being honored for this > case. Sorry if this was already answered, but I didn't see it > come up. > > -- > ( Mike Brownlow | http://wsmake.org/~mike/ | http://wsmake.org/ ) > ( "A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge ) > ( is easy unto him that understandeth." Proverbs 14:6 ) > <<<<< > > thanks, mike! > > BUT-- > > even if that works, the apache dox say that you can have > a HEADER.html or README.html file, which also doesn't work > on our 1.3.9 server... > > so, what we'd already done, instead, was to create our own > /cgi-bin/index.pl script to generate listings that would > keep hackers guessing as to what type of server we're > running. (kinda a roll-our-own deception toolbox, as it were; > you can spot an apache index listing at fifty paces.) we also > added filtering capabilities, where the script looks for > "./.index" and checks for ^\s*(show|hide)\s*=\s*(.*) to know > what to include/exclude in the grep//,readdir(). > > our next step is to make it an Apache::Registry handler instead > of a resource-hogging cgi script. (once we get these darn > client demands our of our way...) > > -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- > Their is five errers in this sentance. >
