Re: [cobalt-users] RAQ3 how do you disallow index viewing?

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From: "Ray Smith" <ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Cobalt users list" <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 11:17 AM
Subject: [cobalt-users] RAQ3 how do you disallow index viewing?


> Hi,
> 
> New Apache user here.  Trying to escape from the gravitational pull of my MS
> IIS systems so any help appreciated :)
> 
> I'd like to disallow viewing of indexing so that when someone enters
> http://www.website.com/dir1/  they do not see the index of the files.
> 
> I'm looking at my shiny new "Linux Apache Web Server Admininstration" book
> and it looks like I have to update IndexOptions but when I look at the
> httpd.conf on my raq3 I don't see anything about indexing except for the
> foillowing line that lists names of files to use as root default display
> files:
> 

You can do this two ways.  If you don't want the public to have any 
access to items in a particular directory you can simply change the 
permissions on the directory to 700.  If you just want to keep prying 
eyes from getting a directory listing simply create an index.html file 
and make the text read something like "Directory Listing Denied" 
or "You looka my server, I breaka you face".  Either way you get 
the idea.

Take care.

Brandon Wheaton
Wheaton Consulting Group