Protect Directories

Discussion in 'Apache' started by bigrollerdave, Feb 13, 2007.

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    I'm trying to stop people from seeing all the files in a folder. Say if you have the folder http://www.somesite.com/files/ and there isn't a index file then it will show a list of all the files in the folder. I have over 30,000 folders though and can't add a index file for each one. Is there a way to stop that via apache?
     
    bigrollerdave, Feb 13, 2007 IP
  2. nick-a

    nick-a Active Member

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    Options -Indexes in a .htaccess? I think it may work sitewide I'm not sure.
     
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  3. rodney88

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    Most efficient is to put that in your VirtualHosts section for the domain in your httpd.conf

    Otherwise just put it in the root .htaccess file and it will be inherited in all subfolders.

    (And when I say it, I mean the code nick posted "Options -Indexes")
     
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  4. bigrollerdave

    bigrollerdave Well-Known Member

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    Where exactly can I put this? Can I throw that code anywhere in my http.conf?
     
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  5. ThreeGuineaWatch

    ThreeGuineaWatch Well-Known Member

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    It is usually within a <Directory> directive... something like:

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    <Directory /name/of/directory/to/protect>
    Options -Indexes
    </Directory>
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    ThreeGuineaWatch, Feb 23, 2007 IP