Comments on: Apache Web Server Prevent Directory / Folder Listing

By: Tom Geld

Tom Geld — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 09:28:24 +0000

Hey Team,
thanks for the help. I was trying lots of opportunities, for whatever reason I did not find any source which explained my problem and its solution so clear.
Go on with your work,
Tom

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:49:51 +0000

Can anyone tell me how to remove items from the IndexIgnore list? New commands in a subdirectory only add to the list, but I need some files to be displayed which would be hidden some levels above. I didn’t finde anything in the official documentation, but I hope I have only overlooked something…

Is there a way to acchieve this?

Sebastian

By: selim

selim — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:08:27 +0000

I prefer Scott’s solution – thanks scotty :)

By: Balakrishnan

Balakrishnan — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:18:26 +0000

How do i enable files and folder listing for a particular folder?

By: Vinicius Brasil

Vinicius Brasil — Sat, 16 May 2009 01:35:49 +0000

I want to configure the folder to display the files for download, but want to customize the page that is returned by the webserver. Anyway of doing that without creating a separate page.

By: Snipervzln

Snipervzln — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:50:06 +0000

I prefer Scott’s solution; use it on your .htaccess inside the folder you want to hide. It’s better (and customizable) a 505 forbidden page than a empty folder list. Thanks for the post.

By: SinhNT

SinhNT — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:59:34 +0000

Yes. You can modify the config file (httpd.conf) of the Apache server as follows:
1. Options None
2. AllowOverride All
3. Restart the Apache server to take effect.

If you can not access to the Apache’s config file. You should contact to the host’s admin to modify this file so that the line “IndexIgnore *” in your .htaccess file takes effect.

Good luck.

By: toan

toan — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:50:22 +0000

I have changed th IndexIgnore * in my httpd file but still am able to see the files in the directory. Is there any other directives needs to get changed to disable the directory browsing.

me too. any I dieal for this?

By: toan

toan — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:49:48 +0000

I have changed th IndexIgnore * in my httpd file but still am able to see the files in the directory. Is there any other directives needs to get changed to disable the directory browsing.

By: Simi

Simi — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:34:15 +0000

I have changed th IndexIgnore * in my httpd file but still am able to see the files in the directory. Is there any other directives needs to get changed to disable the directory browsing.

By: S. Fanara

S. Fanara — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:45:04 +0000

Thank you for this article. I was looking for a “confirmation” about the wildcard character “*” to make sure it could be used with the directive “IndexIgnore” in order to prevent listing of files and folders on all Apache server directories. The apache mod_autoindex help page did not make any mention of it specifically, instead gives a rather generic example were wildcards are used in conjunction to file extension (like in: *.bak)… and although that is a clear hint to more tech savvy people, others may like to have it “spelled out” to be sure they will not run into problems.

At first I thought about using “*.*”, but most likely that wouldn’t have worked on folders… so I thought that it must have been possible to just use “*” to mean “everything” (any folder and any file).

Thanks again for spelling it out ;)

By: Scott Oertel

Scott Oertel — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:34:29 +0000

also placing “Options -Indexes” in an htaccess file or in a directory directive in the httpd.conf would disable directory browsing/listings