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I'm developing from within a VM. My projects reside on the host. I've created a symlink in the C:\xampp\htdocs folder, targeting the host directory containing my source code. While this works technically, directory listing is ULTRA SLOW. When I access a specific file it works fine and speedy. I'm heavily using directory listing though and I don't know what else to do in order to speed things up.

If I open the direcotry using Windows Explorer it's not slow at all.

Can you help me out?

Best regards,
D.R.

I've now changed the symlink to an Alias + <Directory> entry in the httpd.conf. Unforunately, also slow (only when directory listing, accessing existing files directly is fast).

(My root directory is kinda big - can this be the problem? does the directory lister go through all the sub directories and this is not good? Is it possible to configure it in a more performant way?)

Best regards,
D.R.

drauch wrote:does the directory lister go through all the sub directories and this is not good?

??

Does my car drive faster than 180km/h?

Sorry for bad English, I wanted to express that it's maybe a problem for the index module that I have directories with ~30 sub directories and each of them has again 30 sub directories.

I dont know which index module you are using, that is my problem.

Ah, the default XAMPP one. I think it's called autoindexer.

In fact I have almost the default XAMPP configuration. No additional modules, nothing.

Best regards,
D.R.

There is only one thing i can imagine, edit httpd.conf and enter this line:

EnableSendfile Off

Restart Apache and try again.

The documentation in the httpd.conf would hint exactly at that problem. I've turned it off and restarted Apache, unfortunately, it's still slow. Also turning off "EnableMMAP" didn't help :-/

(just realized that EnableSendfile is by default off, so of course it didn't help :-/)