Enabling directory listing in a folder in nginx seems simple enough with just an autoindex on; directive inside the location directive. However, for some reason, it didn’t work for me.
I finally got it to work by moving the root directive out of location.
So, if you have something like this :
server {
listen 80;
server_name domain.com www.domain.com;
access_log /var/...........................;
location / {
root /path/to/root;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
}
location /somedir {
autoindex on;
}
}
Change it to :
server {
listen 80;
server_name domain.com www.domain.com;
access_log /var/...........................;
root /path/to/root;
location / {
index index.php index.html index.htm;
}
location /somedir {
autoindex on;
}
}
Directory indices should show flawlessly now.
(A live example can be found here.)
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Nice info, thanks
Thank you for this, it helped me today.
thx. it looks like a bug?
Not a bug, actually. Putting a root inside a location block is perfectly valid if all the location blocks have root defined.
This is perfectly valid :
server { server_name domain.com; access_log /var/...........................; location / { root /path/to/root; index index.php index.html index.htm; } location /somedir { root /path/to/root/somedir; autoindex on; } }This is not :
server { server_name domain.com; access_log /var/...........................; location / { root /path/to/root; index index.php index.html index.htm; } location /somedir { autoindex on; } }See : http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls#Root_inside_Location_Block
Thank you very much. You saved me a lot of time.