Default file other than index.html

Question

Is there a way to have a file other thing index.html or index.md served as a folder's default file? Specifically, I'm looking to keep my .json file extention, but have it reference-able as /api-docs/myapi/ instead of /api-docs/myapi/myapi.json.

Answer 1

This configuration is mostly in your web server. You can set the files for the server to look for to index.json (as well as index.html and index.htm which are common on most servers). For example, this can be configured on nginx by adding this to your server block:

index index.json index.html index.htm;

If nginx gets a request for /some/folder, it will try to serve /some/folder/index.json, /some/folder/index.html, /some/folder/index.htm then your 404 page with this configuration.