Automatic index generation is enabled with using Options +Indexes . See the Options directive for more details. If the FancyIndexing option is given with the IndexOptions directive, the column headers are links that control the order of the display.

httpd is the Apache HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server program. It is designed to be run as a standalone daemon process. When used like this it will create a pool of child processes or threads to handle requests.

The index. html file is the default file a web server will serve up when you access the website using just the domain name and not a specific HTML file name. In the /var/www/html directory, create a file with the name index. html .

The DirectoryIndex directive sets the list of resources to look for, when the client requests an index of the directory by specifying a / at the end of the directory name.