I recently upgraded a back-end server from wheezy to jessie, and with the upgrade,
Apache went from 2.2 to 2.4. There are a lot of changes to Apache between 2.2
and 2.4, especially in the area of authentications, authorizations, etc.
One difference that I have not been able to figure out is how to allow access
to a directory. I'm not talking about allowing access to the files in the
directory, I'm talking about access to the directory itself. On apache2,
for example, if I had a directory called xyz in /var/www, I could type in
the address bar of my browser something like this:
http://my.server.ip.address/xyz
And it would show me a list of files in the xyz directory. I could then click
on the filename of one of the files in the directory and see that file.
But with the new apache server, I get a "404 - not found" error. I have
looked at the apache documentation, but cannot figure out how to accomplish
what I want. How do I get this to work?
Basically, I want a configuration that allows all users to view all documents
and all directories under /var/www/html. I don't want to have to define
userids or passwords. No authentication of users will be done.