Http conf file

Anon

Here I am again pleading for help in the forum.

I now have a 'php'd' version of a web site running on an apache server however I need to prevent people seeing the contents

ie
if the user types http://www.anywebsite.com/game/ which happens to be a dir they get a directory listing of the files

with PWS it just a question of switching off dir browsing but im not up on apache

I have been told that i need to put an httpd
file in each directory but thats where it ends.

Anyhelp much appreciated as always!!!!

Anon

what I do when I don't want the users to see the contents of the directory, I make an index file.

The index file is the first thing that will populate if you try to access just the directory.

I have seen people add to every directory:
index.html
or
index.php

index hides your files but is also the first thing to populate if a user goes directly to the directory.

Anon

Somewhere on your computer lives the httpd.conf file, the main config file for apache. There's a section in it that says "This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to." Shortly after that comes a directory container something like:

<Directory "/www/htdocs">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

If you remove the word "Indexes" from the Options line, and restart your web server, then you should no longer have indexes show up in directories under your document root, unless you create a new container for a subdirectory that turns auto-indexing back on.