Cannot use --directory along with --index

Issue details

Running Browsersync with both --index and --directory cli flags makes it always serve directory listing, when navigating to a directory’s URL, even if an index file exists. I would expect it to attempt to serve the index file then and if it cannot find an index file, then serve the contents of the directory (just how Apache does it in most installations).

Steps to reproduce/test case

1. Create a directory (e.g. dir)
2. Create a file called index.html inside dir
3. Start Browsersync from the command line to serve dir and set both the --index and --directory flags.
4. Open the Browser
5. Browsersync will serve directory listings but will not serve the index.html file by default, when browsing a directory’s URL

Please specify which version of Browsersync, node and npm you’re running

• Browsersync [ 2.12.8 ]
• Node [ 0.10.45 ]
• Npm [ 2.6.0 ]

Browsersync use-case

• API
• Gulp
• Grunt
• CLI

If CLI, please paste the entire command below

browser-sync start --server --port 8000 --files="**" --no-ui --index index.html --directory

[shakyShane]

so the issue is that you need the directory listing middleware to be at the end of the stack, you could do

var bs = require("browser-sync").create();
var serveIndex = require('serve-index');

bs.init({
    server: "test/fixtures"
}, function (err, bs) {
    bs.addMiddleware('', serveIndex('test/fixtures'))
});

[parisk]

Seems quite straightforward. Thanks a lot for this.

I will try this out and provide any new comments, if applicable.

P.S.: The --directoryFallback option sounds great as well.