[thelist] Simple Apache question

Seb Barre sebastien at oven.com
Fri Nov 10 10:13:46 CST 2000


At 04:52 PM 11/9/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>If a directory doesn't contain an index.html file, the browser will
>automatically display the contents of that directory when the url is
>just plain http://blah/path/
>
>How do I disable this option so that the contents of the directory are
>not revealed?

First question would be do you have access to the configuration files?

I will assume you don't since that's the case with most people.

If you have access control rights to your directory (with .htaccess files 
usually), you should be able to modify the options for that directory (all 
all directories under it, so drop the file in your web root if you want 
this to be the rule for your whole site).

In the .htaccess file, you will want to put the following line:

Options -Indexes

You can append this to any other lines if you have the file already.

That will disable the option to display a directory index (since it appears 
to be enabled by default).

If you DO have access to the main configuration files, you can locate the 
<Directory> block for the directory or path you want to modify and remove 
the "Indexes" option from the Options line.


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