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Module ngx_http_autoindex_module

Example Configuration
Directives
     autoindex
     autoindex_exact_size
     autoindex_format
     autoindex_localtime

The ngx_http_autoindex_module module processes requests ending with the slash character (‘/’) and produces a directory listing. Usually a request is passed to the ngx_http_autoindex_module module when the ngx_http_index_module module cannot find an index file.

Example Configuration

location / {
    autoindex on;
}

Directives

Syntax: autoindex on | off;
Default:
autoindex off;
Context: http, server, location

Enables or disables the directory listing output.

Syntax: autoindex_exact_size on | off;
Default:
autoindex_exact_size on;
Context: http, server, location

For the HTML format, specifies whether exact file sizes should be output in the directory listing, or rather rounded to kilobytes, megabytes, and gigabytes.

Syntax: autoindex_format html | xml | json | jsonp;
Default:
autoindex_format html;
Context: http, server, location

This directive appeared in version 1.7.9.

Sets the format of a directory listing.

When the JSONP format is used, the name of a callback function is set with the callback request argument. If the argument is missing or has an empty value, then the JSON format is used.

The XML output can be transformed using the ngx_http_xslt_module module.

Syntax: autoindex_localtime on | off;
Default:
autoindex_localtime off;
Context: http, server, location

For the HTML format, specifies whether times in the directory listing should be output in the local time zone or UTC.