Pervent index view

[jensen]

Sometimes people cannot find the page they are looking for in your site and they remove the last words just before the "/" sign and then hit ENTER

They would get to see all the files in that folder.

How do we prevent that index of files from being seen?

 

[Chris Z]

what you could do is make sure you have a file named "index.php" "index.html" or you could just do a redirect to the main page..

 

[jensen]

Hi billy,

even with that index file one can still by pass that and get to your directory.

 

[dharmil]

very simple
creat a .htaccess file and put this in there

IndexIgnore *

it will hide all your files

 

[Spartan Erik]

Hi billy,

even with that index file one can still by pass that and get to your directory.

Really? I put an index.html file in the subdirectory I wanted to hide from the public, and it works fine.. I also put a 2 second HTML redirect on it too..

 

[Chris Z]

ya i'm not sure what he's talking about..maybe there's some sort of "function" that allows you to see it or something :dunno:

 

[Bryon]

In an .htaccess file write:

"Options -Indexes"

That will give all directories, (From "that one and lower"), a "Permission denied, you dont have access blah blah blah" HTTP error when someone attempts to view it's listing.

It's basically the same thing that Dharmil posted, but instead it gives the permission denied error.

 

[kryptonyte]

Go into Cpanel and click the Index Manager.