FancyIndexing NameWidth question

["Rose, John B" <jbrose@xxxxxxx>]

Hey

We had some long directory names being truncated and got it corrected using 

IndexOptions FancyIndexing NameWidth=*

based on example found searching the web.

I was looking around in the Apache documentation for more info on FancyIndexing but either I am overlooking it or there isn't much. When I clicked on "FancyIndexing" link I got this …

FancyIndexing

This turns on fancy indexing of directories.

And it isn't listed in the Directives list …

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/directives.html

From what I found it seems to only have impact of making it able to sort based on column header chosen. 

However, when we tried only …

IndexOptions NameWidth=*

It did not work until we added "FancyIndexing"

Why?

No big deal, just curious.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_autoindex.html#indexoptions

Thanks