Why does home page just show "Index of /" instead of bringingup index.php?

Ok, I know this is probably dealt with in thousands of topics around the web, but it’s really hard to search for

I just did a fresh install of Modx on a WAMP server. Directory tree looks like this:
C:/Apache2.2/htdocs/manager

The problem is that when I hit the home button I get this:
Index of /
* assets/
* erase_install/
* index-ajax.php
* index.php
* manager/

instead of the home page.

So what do I need to do in order to make http://localhost/ display the home page instead of an index?

P.S. I haven’t enabled Friendly URL’s yet. Problem is the same with or without .htaccess.

I think its normal practice to have a folder for each site within the htdocs folder e.g. dev
Then you would access it as http://localhost/dev/
Your are currently in the root of your web server, hence it listing the folders

I tried it the other way last night, same result. I had:

c:/Apache2.2/htdocs/mysitename/

and it also displayed just the Index of/ page.

If I go to
c:/Apache2.2/htdocs/mysitename/index.php
I get the home page.

The server has to be set to recognize "index.php" as a start page in the httpd.conf file.

Something like


http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/apache/2000/03/02/configuring_apache.html

Thanks!
It had the index.html, but not index.php.

Works great now.