preventing directory browsing

[Anon]

Hi everyone,

I wish to prevent the possibility of any browsing of my site's directory structure. I would also like to have a default page to appear whenever the URL for my site is entered. Does anyone know how to enable these measures for a system that uses Apache on windows 98?

Any advice would be greatfully received. Thank you.

[Anon]

In your httpd.conf file you need to find the line that looks like:

<Directory "/usr/local/apache/htdocs">

It should be different for your system. Under that line will be another that looks like this:

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

Remove the Indexes option and your users won't be able to see the files in your directories.

Also in the directory listed in the <Directory> line above create a file called index.html with this code in it:

<H2 align="center">Go Away</H2>

Now whenever anyone types in your url they will get a page that says "Go Away". Feel free to change that to whatever you want.

[Anon]

Thanks Rob for the extremely quick response - it's been quite a revelation.