Apache Cookbook, 2nd Edition

12.13. Allowing the End User to Specify Version Sorting

Problem

You want to let the end user enable or disable version sorting.

Solution

The user may specify whether to enable or disable the version ordering by adding a V query string argument to the URL:

To enable version ordering:

http://www.example.com/download/?V=1

To disable it:

http://www.example.com/download/?V=0

Discussion

Like the F argument, the V argument allows the user to impose his own custom formatting on a directory listing.

See Also

• http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_autoindex.html