# .htaccess tutorial suggestion

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/htaccess-tutorial-suggestion/81880
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**Created:** [March 5, 2005, 8:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/htaccess-tutorial-suggestion/81880 "2005-03-05T20:02:13Z")
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### Author: ![ScHAmPi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@ScHAmPi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ScHAmPi)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2005, 8:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/htaccess-tutorial-suggestion/81880/1 "2005-03-05T20:02:13Z")

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I just read the htaccess tutorial, although I use it for something else that isn’t described.  
I use it to allow surfers to see a list of files instead of an error page when there’s no index page in a folder.

For example: [http://www.butchersinaction.com/schampi/cpp/](http://www.butchersinaction.com/schampi/cpp/)

Dunno if you think it’s useful but I had been wondering for a long time how I had to do that.

The way to do it:

Just make a .htaccess file with this in it:

```auto
Options +Indexes

```