From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ppx1D-0005KP-3r for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 06:07:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A0B10E08DA for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 06:07:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-relay1.uniserve.ca (smtp-relay1i.uniserve.ca [216.113.194.203]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B097E038D for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 05:45:54 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=uniserve.com; s=2010; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:To:From:Date; bh=w2jwkHrIVIanGRXF4Ue6xXb7NcoAF2ACqa8xTBKzJMk=; b=T7I95VwwemfC24GaYnA6M4DUqkmtWNYh9ut9C5Dt9SAj/iJwwzTrhLu7GLdlbLsGuIJ1WFoIeBG3tVGY3x4OovDpr9ANDt1jwLBc4tzjG7DMQBvNQ2yusoKJiiVWKyCt; Received: from ip-75.58.99.216.dsl-cust.ca.inter.net ([216.99.58.75] helo=ca.inter.net) by smtp-relay1.uniserve.ca with smtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Ppwgb-0003Ki-CO for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:45:54 -0800 Received: by ca.inter.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:45:52 -0500 Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:45:52 -0500 From: Philip Webb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] invisible README Message-ID: <20110217054552.GA3941@ca.inter.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20110216045416.GB3806@ca.inter.net> <20110216075624.GD3806@ca.inter.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Sender-Info: purslow@ca.inter.net X-Scanner: OK. Scanned. X-Uniserve-Spam-Score: 0.1 1 (/) X-Uniserve-Spam-Report: Content analysis details: (0.1 points) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.1 RDNS_DYNAMIC Delivered to trusted network by host with dynamic-looking rDNS Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 5a57f44db670e6894909e5ad4940df7b 110216 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Philip Webb wr= ote: >> I recently put some files at =A0http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/= esp/ . >> One of them is =A0README.pdf , which is visible when I list the dir co= ntents >> using SSh or Krusader, but which is not shown by FF, Konqueror or Lynx= . >> If I make a copy called =A0READFILE.pdf , it is shown by the browsers. >> Can anyone explain what's going on ? > Maybe your IndexIgnore setting is something like this: > IndexIgnore .??* *~ *# HEADER* README* RCS CVS *,v *,t >> So, where do I look for 'IndexIgnore ... ' ? > The configuration line I quoted was taken from the Apache documentation= : > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_autoindex.html#indexignore Yes, I checked Google & it appears there sb a file .htaccess in the public dir, which can contain the IndexIgnore line. However, the server I'm using is on a university multi-user system & so I don't have root access to change its default settings nor do I know whether creating my own .htaccess would work. My workaround -- renaming to READTHIS -- is adequate. Thanks to all who offered advice. --=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D,= ,=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca