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Display all files in MAMP htdocs through browser

I recently purchased a new MacBook Pro (10.8 OS) and installed MAMP 3.0 (not MAMP-Pro) but I have been searching the web on how to display all files when viewing a folder within the htdocs directory such as: htdocs/stackoverflow VIA the browser (Chrome or Firefox). This is a feature that I do not have a problem with in Windows using either WAMP or XAMPP when navigating to the localhost/directory/contents. I do understand that localhost must be accessed through locahost:8888 or whatever port it has been modified to. I do not have an issue starting or stopping the MAMP server and everything is executable through NetBeans 8.0 when I set a .php file as the index:

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So just to be clear, if I have a directory under htdocs (htdocs/foobar/) filled with several .php files I want to be able to view them in the sub-directory of htdocs instead of a blank browser (tested within Chrome and Firefox). I would imagine this is a security setting I am missing in the configuration? How would I enable, for local development, the ability to view all files, directories, and contents VIA the web browser? If it helps or may be an issue I am using NetBeans 8.0 as my IDE for PHP.

Windows:

localhost
-stackoverflow
--foo.php
--bar.php
--humpday.php

Mac:

localhost:8888
-stackoverflow
--empty in browser (chrome or Firefox)

I have searched to see if this a php.ini feature, MAMP 3 documentation has nothing on this, and Netbeans shows nothing per the search.

Solution

  • Ok after much research and the help from Kevbot and Matt Thompson I was able to figure out what to do and it is as followed:

    You should enable all hidden files in Mac that are default hidden. To do this open a terminal (Finder > Applications > Utilities > Terminal) I originally referenced this site but it was wrong in regards to showing hidden files for OSX 10.8:

    WRONG:

    defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES

    RIGHT:

    defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES

    After doing so I held down the option + clicking Finder at the same time to prompt Relaunch of Finder.

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    You will need to navigate to MAMP (in this case MAMP 3.0 non-pro) in the Applications folder to MAMP > conf > apache > httpd.conf.

    Open file in a text editor and search for Options Indexes. It was line 202 for me.

    Change:

    <Directory />
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOveride None
</Directory>

    TO:

    <Directory />
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOveride All
</Directory>

    Create an .htaccess file in the desired directory and add:

    Options +Indexes
IndexOptions +FancyIndexing

    Launch/relaunch MAMP. Do note that if you have an index anything (.php, .html. .xhtml, etc. etc.) will show this instead of the directory listing