Question

I know this must be something around .htaccess or php.ini.

If a site visitor views ANY folder I want to automatically run a script listing the files in it (file_read.php).

But I only want the file_read.php to be in my root folder.

Can someone point me please?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Not so long ago I had similar problem and ended with .htaccess like this:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}index.php !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}index.html !-f
RewriteRule (.*/) file_read.php?dirpath=/$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^$ file_read.php?dirpath=/ [L]

</IfModule>

Some explanation why like this:

1. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d – to make it work only on directories
2. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}index.php !-f – do not list directories containiing index file
3. RewriteRule (.*/) file_read.php?dirpath=/$1 – note the ending slash, without it entering http://server.com/directory (no trailing slash) was redirected to something like http://server.com/directory/file_read.php?dirpath=directory, not exactly what we wanted.
4. RewriteRule ^$ file_read.php?dirpath=/ – after adding trailing slash to rule above, directory lister stopped working for root directory (http://server.com/) so this line fixes it