how to prevent user access file directory

valen53

how to prevent user access file directory? such as when user only type URL : domainname/directory/
files in the directory will be display... how to prevent the files display ?
like use IIS , i can tick for not to browse the files.
thank u for helping.

djoseph74

I think you're getting at how to do it at the server level, I'm not sure about that on anything but the IIS level, however, you can simply put an index.html file in the directory that just have it contain:

You don't even really need that much to be honest.. That'll shut out access..

-Dan Joseph

rpanning

I can't check this out right now but in the IIS configuration there should be an option to turn off directory listings.

Sxooter

Originally posted by valen53
how to prevent user access file directory? such as when user only type URL : domainname/directory/
files in the directory will be display... how to prevent the files display ?
like use IIS , i can tick for not to browse the files.
thank u for helping.

I assume you are now using apache, correct? If that's the case, then you do this:

Assuming you're not running fancy virtual servers, you just find the settings for you default server in httpd.conf and add a container for the location that has an options none in it like this:

<location /dir_you_want_to_protect>
  options none
</location>