directory listing or proxy

Hi,we have a departmental web site on a Apache server. recently someone made a request about listing of files. basically this group of people share files through a afp server with mac machines. they want to make some files under one specific folder publicly avaialbe through the departmental web site.the afp server has address such as afp://................................/public. they want the files in the public folder listed on the departmental web site.someone suggesting using proxy to channel a url to the afp server. are there any examples around I can see how this could done?but i'm also thinking about directory listing on apache. I know it is a security issue. The top level web site directory listing is disabled. But I can enable a single subfolder directory listing by inserting .htaccess file into that subfolder.I'm not sure if directory listing is a good way to do this. Is it a big no-no in terms of security? Do I have to go down the proxy route?directory listing just seems much easier, no need to mess around with .httpd, is directory listing acceptable in this case?manythankssu

 

Why don't you create a VirtualHost for the files listing? You can disable file listing for the whole server and enable it for specific VirtualHosts. +the VirtualHost's ServerRoot does not have to be where the example.com/ ServerRoot is, so it all fits your requirements well. (I can't post links, so just try Googling "disable index apache2" and "setting up vhosts apache2")