With Apache, is it possible to generate a directory listing for a non-folder URL?

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Published on 2013-05-23T03:53:36Z Indexed on 2013/11/05 4:00 UTC
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Apache allows you to create a directory list (when configured) if you visit a folder with no index.html.

What I want to know is, is it possible to get that same list but at a different URL? I'm already using index.html and want to keep it that way.

i.e., this is what I'm looking for:

http://example.com/blar/ -> loads my index.html page (don't want this to change) http://example.com/blar/directory_list (I want this url to render the apache directory list instead)

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