It's a minor security enhancement. For example if you tried example.com/files/ the .htaccess file will prevent access to that folder and they should get 403 forbidden, it's unlikely but that can fail.
That's where index.htm comes in. There is configuration in Apache that allows listing the files when accessing a directory which is usually turned off. It's nice feature for basic file links because HTML is generated by Apache. Here is example of it turned on:
https://download.phpbb.com/pub/release/
There is also configuration for default file when accessing a directory, usually (index.php index.html index.htm etc.). The default file overrides listing the files as long as one of those files is present, index.htm is served instead of listing the files.
That's where index.htm comes in. There is configuration in Apache that allows listing the files when accessing a directory which is usually turned off. It's nice feature for basic file links because HTML is generated by Apache. Here is example of it turned on:
https://download.phpbb.com/pub/release/
There is also configuration for default file when accessing a directory, usually (index.php index.html index.htm etc.). The default file overrides listing the files as long as one of those files is present, index.htm is served instead of listing the files.
Statistics: Posted by thecoalman — Wed Mar 12, 2025 2:46 am