how to disable directory browsing...I am running apache 2,0.46 on windows 2000

help...

how do I disable directory browsing

thanx in advance

Linh

On 26 Jun 2003 18:52:13 -0700, The Other Guy responded to a post from
sdguy2007@yahoo.com (Mike) who wrote in
comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows:

>help...
>
>how do I disable directory browsing
>
>thanx in advance
>
>Linh


Options -Indexes in the appropriate directory container. For example,
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks -Indexes
AllowOverride None
</Directory>

Since this is the root directory, all subdirectories will inherit from
this, so you can enable it for specific directories (e.g., Options
+Indexes) as desired.

From the hyttpd.conf file, for reference:
#
# Each directory to which Apache has access can be configured with
respect
# to which services and features are allowed and/or disabled in that
# directory (and its subdirectories).
#
# First, we configure the "default" to be a very restrictive set of
# features.
#
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>

#
# Note that from this point forward you must specifically allow
# particular features to be enabled - so if something's not working as
# you might expect, make sure that you have specifically enabled it
# below.
#

#
# This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to.
#
<Directory "C:/Apache2/htdocs">
....
</Directory>

See http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#options for more
info.

Furthermore, ensure that there is an index.html file (or whatever is
listed in the DirecotryIndex directive) so that it does cover any
contents. That way you don't get a generic error message.

HTH
TOG

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