All, It would appear that a twisted web server can't be easily configured (via mktap web --index) to use both index.html _and_ index.php (or any other combination) as directory indexes. mktap2.1 web --help ... -i, --index= Add the name of a file used to check for directory indexes. [default: index, index.html] SO.. I tried: 1) mktap2.1 web --path ~/public_html/ --index index.php and my php indexed directories work; but index.html indexed dirs do not 2) mktap2.1 web --path ~/public_html/ --index index.html,index.php and get the mktap web usage I've got to believe what I'm looking to do is something others would want to be able to configure too. However, the relevant twisted/tap/web.py code will only allow the user to add a single directory index; pretty strange limitation... Here's a patch to enable a user to specify multiple directory indexes to the web server via mktap (i.e. like #2 above): --- Twisted.orig/twisted/tap/web.py Wed Oct 23 07:56:52 2002 +++ Twisted/twisted/tap/web.py Sun Oct 27 13:35:34 2002 @@ -54,10 +54,11 @@ self.opts['root'] = None def opt_index(self, indexName): - """Add the name of a file used to check for directory indexes. + """Add the name of a file(s) used to check for directory indexes. [default: index, index.html] """ - self.opts['indexes'].append(indexName) + for index in string.split(indexName,','): + self.opts['indexes'].append(index) opt_i = opt_index