[Savannah-hackers-public] [gnu.org #232165] Directory indexes at www.gnu.org

[Patrick Brunier via RT]

Hi Sylvian,

Your story is clear. I've allready discussed it with the other
webmasters. We decided to transfer this ticket to sysadmin. We can't
make such changes.
I personally don't have a problem with DI's.

kind regards,

Patrick Brunier
GNU Webmaster


> [beuc - Mon May 30 18:46:29 2005]:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Could you tell me what is the issue with directory indexes?
> 
> The sysadmins were actually in Cc of this request from the
> beginning. After one month, I told them to activate directory indexes
> anyway since the www.gnu.org webmasters apparently didn't care at that
> time (address@hidden was in Cc as well -
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/savannah-hackers-public/2005-
> 05/msg00004.html).
> 
> Unfortunately address@hidden is often not reliable and didn't do
> anything.
> 
> I think directory indexes should be simply enabled.  Our main concern
> is people who submit support requests asking why their space is 403
> forbidden.
> eg: https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?func=detailitem&item_id=104022
> An empty directory listing would be more appropriate. This
> applies to all projects from nongnu.org, the ones under software/ and
> also the place where translation teams webpages will be stored one
> this issue will be cleared as well. This hence also applies to
> projects not yet existing.
> 
> Unless you have good reasons to forbid directory indexes, I think it
> would require less work to simply activate them sitewide.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> If you need to discuss this, please add savannah-hackers-public or
> savannah-hackers-private so we can participate in the conversation :)
> 
> Thanks for the reply!
> 
> 
>