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     ReadmeName README

and you have a file in that directory called README.html,

that file will be displayed as the readme file for that directory.

Another neat trick here is that you can use HeaderName in

conjunction with IndexOptions +SuppressHTMLPreamble, putting

HTML in the header file to specify background, fonts, style

sheets, or whatever you use on the rest of your site, so that

the directory listing does not have to look like it does not

belong to the rest of your site.
Conclusion

In the cases where you have directory listings rather than

actual HTML pages, mod_autoindex can make these listings look

exactly as you want them to, without having to generate custom

directory listing pages for each directory.

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