Neat Index

• Version: 0.1
• Author: Rowan Lewis [email protected]
• Date: 18th June 2010
• Github Repository: http://github.com/rowan-lewis/autoindex

Neat Index is an alternative to the Apache, nginx (or other web server) auto index module. You can show readme files in your directory listing, control what files can be listet, and completely customise the generated output using XSLT.

Server Requirements

• PHP 5.3 or above
• PHP's LibXML and LibXSL extensions
• A UNIX like operating system

Installation on Apache

1. Download Neat Index from GitHub and extract the archive

2. Move the extracted directory to the document root of your webserver and rename to .autoindex

3. Disable Apache's own auto index module:

   Options -Indexes
   

4. Add .autoindex/index.php as a directory index:

   DirectoryIndex index.html index.php /.autoindex/index.php
   

5. Sit back and marvel at your fancy looking index pages.

Installation on nginx

Add the following lines in to config:

location /DIRECTORY_TO_USE/ {
	include fastcgi_params;
	# make sure there is /autoindex/view/ at $document_root
	fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME /autoindex/index.php;
	fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME
		/PATH_TO_AUTOINDEX/autoindex/index.php;
	fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $uri;
	fastcgi_param PATH_TRANSLATED $document_root$uri;

	if (-d $document_root$uri) {
		fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
	}
}

Screenshot