DirectoryIndex
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 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.