Kevin ... I can tell you what's causing it, and how to disable it, but I can't point you to specific documentation about it. Kevin wrote: > > Looking a bit deeper, I saw googlebot (and later, some ordinary vistors) > using this syntax: > > http://handsonhowto.com/?M=A > http://handsonhowto.com/?S=D > > ...and if you try this yourself in Internet Explorer, you'll find that > Apache is ignoring my index.html and is giving you a formatted directory > of the docroot directory as though there were no index page. > > The differences between the ?M and the ?S versions are not blatantly > obvious, at least not to me. This is a "feature" of the Apache autoindex module: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_autoindex.html When you turn on FancyIndexing, the index page includes links for sorting the directory by Name, file Size, Modification date/time, etc. You can disable this by setting IndexOptions +SuppressColumnSorting for any/all directories that have indexing enabled. These links are apparently interpreted by apache even if the directory has an index page. Bad Apache -- no biscuit. > <Directory /> > Options FollowSymLinks > AllowOverride None > </Directory> > > <Directory /home/http/bcc/images> > Order Deny,Allow > Deny from All > AllowOverride AuthConfig > </Directory> > > <Directory "/home/http"> > Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews > AllowOverride None > Order allow,deny > Allow from all > </Directory> > > <IfModule mod_dir.c> > DirectoryIndex index.html > </IfModule> > > <IfModule mod_autoindex.c> > IndexOptions FancyIndexing > # Bunch of defaults provided by Apache - snipped > ReadmeName README > HeaderName HEADER > IndexIgnore .??* *~ *# HEADER* README* RCS CVS *,v *,t > </IfModule> I would recommend reading the auto_index module docs and altering your settings for <Directory "/home/httpd"> accordingly. - Craig - -- ============= Excellence is a journey, not a destination ============= =============== W. Craig Trader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ===============
