No. It is a hand-written table that looks like a directory listing. Nothing scans a folder, nothing generates rows, and nothing keeps it in sync — it shows exactly what you typed.
A real Apache server generates this page per request from the filesystem. This is a static picture of one.
Anywhere you want the appearance of a directory index without a server producing one:
- A placeholder or landing page for a file drop.
- A curated list where you want control over what appears and how it is described.
- A mock-up, screenshot, or demonstration.
- Serving a fixed set of files from static hosting like GitHub Pages, which cannot generate indexes.
Deliberately. It uses the HTML 3.2 doctype and table-based layout because that is what Apache actually emits. Modernising it would produce a page that no longer resembles the thing it imitates, which is the only reason the project exists.
If Apache is generating indexes itself, you do not need this. This is for when you want the look without the generation — including on hosting that has no directory-listing feature at all.
You copied index.html without the icons/ folder. Icons are referenced by relative path, so
both need to travel together. See Installation.
The image name is lowercase — ghcr.io/willtheorangeguy/apache-file-directory. GHCR requires
lowercase names, so the capitalised repository name will not work.
Leftover example rows. The shipped index.html includes samples, and deleting the ones you did
not customise is a manual step nothing can check for you. See Usage.
Yes — replace the files in icons/, or point the src attributes elsewhere. See
Configuration.
Yes: Chrome and Nginx, same idea in different styles.
The page reproduces the work of the Apache HTTP Server Development Team, owned by the Apache Software Foundation, and follows the licensing of the server it derives from — Apache License 2.0.
Nothing enforces them. They are text in a table, so they are as accurate as you make them — which is worth remembering if the listing is meant to look convincing.