Make MAMP Directory Listings Beautiful with Apaxy

From the archive · Originally published on the old sagalbot.com, June 11, 2013.

Default MAMP directory listings are ugly by default. Fortunately, it takes less than 5 minutes to make it a whole lot prettier by using Apaxy.

Apaxy from Adam Whitcroft is a lightweight “theme” for Apache directory listings. The default directory listings for MAMP are really ugly. With lots of project folders, it also becomes difficult to navigate. Apaxy adds some very basic (and customizable) CSS styling to the directory listings. In less than five minutes your directory listings can look like this:

Installation:

Download and unzip Apaxy
Copy and paste the contents of the /apaxy folder to your /htdocs folder
Edit htaccess.txt (now in the /htdocs folder) and update all instances of paths marked with {FOLDERNAME} to http://localhost:8888
Rename htaccess.txt to .htaccess

You’re done. Enjoy your classy directory listings!