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

["Rob" <dillybar1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

a quick fix would be to put a blank index.html page in thedirectory in which you don't want to allow
browsing.

-Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Smith" <ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Cobalt users list" <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 1:17 PM
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:
>
> DirectoryIndex  index.html index.htm index.shtml index.php index.php3
>
> The web server was originally set up by our ISP and has been online in
> production for months without problems.
>
> I also searched the Cobalt user list archives but couldn't find the answer.
>
> Can someone tell me how they do this on a raq?
>
> TIA!
> Ray
>
>
>
>
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