Directories & index.html files

[ktinkel]

This is going to seem pretty elementary, I guess, but I feel as if I am confused about how to handle multiple directories on the server.

Is it good practice to have an “index.html” file in every directory? I know it is necessary at the root, but what about the subordinate directories? And the smaller ones within those?

I wonder if I have been creating more index pages than I really need to.

(I just tore down the site as it was, so cannot show anything right now.)