## DirectoryIndex

Syntax: DirectoryIndex local-url local-url ...
Default: `DirectoryIndex index.html`
Context: server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess
Override: Indexes
Status: Base
Module: mod_dir

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 a directory name. Local-url is the (%-encoded) URL of a document on the server relative to the requested directory; it is usually the name of a file in the directory. Several URLs may be given, in which case the server will return the first one that it finds. If none of the resources exist and the `Indexes` option is set, the server will generate its own listing of the directory.

Example:

> `DirectoryIndex index.html`

then a request for `http://myserver/docs/` would return `http://myserver/docs/index.html` if it exists, or would list the directory if it did not.

Note that the documents do not need to be relative to the directory;

> `DirectoryIndex index.html index.txt /cgi-bin/index.pl`

would cause the CGI script `/cgi-bin/index.pl` to be executed if neither `index.html` or `index.txt` existed in a directory.