While I understand that nginx's author probably wants the dir indexing module to be minimal, I guess it doesn't hurt to add these small features as optional directives 1. Enable or disable column header sorting (by name, last modified, size) 2. Display file size in 2 decimal places (eg 30.52 MB, 1.34 GB) when autoindex_exact_size is off I realize there is 3rd party dir indexing moduleby flint - Ideas and Feature Requests