Chapter 7. Indexing

As we saw back on site.first (see Chapter 3), if there is no index.html file in ... /htdocs or DirectoryIndex directive, Apache concocts an index called “Index of /”, where “/” means the DocumentRoot directory. For many purposes this will, no doubt, be enough. But since this jury-rigged index is the first thing a client sees, you may want to do more.

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