Eric,
You are confusing two separate issues:
First, the FTP "directory browsing" you speak of has nothing to do with your web server. It's a function of your web browser. Most web browsers are intelligent enough to understand that if the URL begins with FTP:// then you are hitting an ftp server and that you would more then likely wish to view directories in a "browse" format. In fact, I would almost guarantee you that the ftp.apple.com and ftp.microsoft.com sites have no web servers on them at all.
The "directory browsing" that involves IIS or Apache is when you type something like "http://foo.com/dir" and up pops a list of the files in that virtual directory under the WEB server. This would be something you setup in Apache if you wanted that - however, for the FTP server - if you have anon access, or you access the site with username and password via the browser, you should find that you automagically have the browsing feature you are seeking
John W Higgins
john@wishdev.com
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From: Eric Carbone
Boys and Girls,
If you check out ftp://ftp.apple.com ftp://ftp.apple.com/ or ftp://ftp.microsoft.com ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/ using your WEB BROWSER, you will see that files and folders on the ftp server are represented as "links".
In Micro$oft's IIS I believe this feature is called "Directory Browsing"
If I have an FTP Server running on my Linux box, the how do I go about doing this same thing?
Is it a function of the FTP Server software itself or is this something I configure in Apache?
Thanks.
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Eric Carbone