Dear Developers, this is concerning ticket/patch #557 ( http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/ticket/557 ), proposing the introduction of a new option to the autoindex module. It allows one to control whether the autoindex module should show "dot-files" or not (files starting with a 'dot', commonly used for hidden files in linux/unix). The patch introduces the following option: syntax: autoindeby shinsterneck - Nginx Development
Thanks for your feedback itpp2012! >> Very useful patch but the naming is not correct, . and .. or not your typical hidden type, autoindex_show_dot_folders would make more sense. You are right, the wording "hidden" is not really good here because "files" starting with a 'dot' would only be hidden primarily on unix/linux type system and not e.g: in windows. Howeverby shinsterneck - Nginx Mailing List - English
I realize that this is an old topic, but I bumped into this issue as well and submitted a patch, which introduces an additional option to control whether hidden files are shown or not by the autoindex module. http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/ticket/557 Best Regards, Shinby shinsterneck - Nginx Mailing List - English