[SOLVED] execute script when directory listing by .htaccess

Issue

I have a http server (apache HTTPD v2.4) where directory listing is enabled. I configured it to use the 'fancy-index' from https://github.com/Vestride/fancy-index, and works great. However, its searching function didn't give what I was looking for.

I'd like to configure the webserver such that if I goto http://mywebserver.com/someDir/*?list, it will return a list of all the files in someDir in a "file, filesize" format.

Or, if I goto http://mywebserver.com/someDir/essay2020*.txt?list , I'll get a custom list of all essay2020*.txt files. Or some form of a simple regex: say "essay2020[0-2]*.txt".

I can write a php/perl/python script that can read a directory and return the 'file, filesize' list. But how do I configure the .htaccess to call this script? Do I have to muck around with 'RewriteRule'? or something special?

As an added note, I'm not limited to modifying .htaccess only. If I can do all of this by modifying the httpd.conf, I'm open to that suggestion too.

Thanks.

Solution

The answer in Comments by CBroe did it. By just modifying the apache2.conf file to add:

        RewriteEngine on
        RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^list$
        RewriteRule .* /search.php?path=%{REQUEST_URI}

within my <VirtualHost>, I'm now able to forward everything to search.php, where there I can parse and do what needs to be done. All w/o revealing search.php's existence. Thanks.

Answered By - Rob

Answer Checked By - David Marino (WPSolving Volunteer)