Question

I am looking for a way to access a folder in a site that contains index.html or index.php .
But when I remove the index file, when I try to access list of contents from the url, I get

404 page not found

error ;

Is this possible to see contents of a folder with features that I said , if yes why ?

Answer 1

You could enable directory listing in your .htaccess file that you would put in the directory that you want to browse:

Options +Indexes 

But the fact that you are getting 404 error might also mean that the directory doesn’t exist at all on the server. So make sure it exists and has a .htaccess file inside it allowing directory browsing.