RE: [cobalt-users] Stop directory browsing

[Diana Brake <diana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > I recently noticed that one of my hosted sites had been
> > > registered with
> > > lycos. The problem is that lycos searched out all the links
> > > to the image direcotries etc.
> > > When you follow the link you can merily browse the
> > > directory they're held in. Is there any way to prevent
> > > this? Thought of
> > > making sure there is a index.html file in every directory but am
> > > not sure if that will be sufficient
> >

Hi,


Yes..you can do it server wide. Then if you wish to allow it for a specific 
directory, you may turn it on specifically for that directory.

This is for RaQ2 so you may need a different path on whatever machine you have.

/etc/httpd/conf/access.conf

is the file to change

make a backup first.
I use pico -w access.conf while in the /etc/httpd/conf directory as root.

and look for this not to far into the file:

# This may also be "None", "All", or any combination of "Indexes",
# "Includes", "FollowSymLinks", "ExecCGI", or "MultiViews".

# Note that "MultiViews" must be named *explicitly* --- "Options All"
# doesn't give it to you.

Options SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Includes ExecCGI

Note: I have Indexes turned off. If it is on, the Indexes option will be 
listed.

edit your file, save and back out of pico. Restart httpd.

HTH,
Diana

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