Disabe Directory Listing

Niran

Sep 21 2006, 06:55 AM

Hi all,
How can I disable directory listing?
That means, if there is no default page for that directory,
that should display access denied page!
How can I configure that using cPanel?

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Quatrux

Sep 21 2006, 08:21 AM

This is really easy.. I don't know if you can do it in CPanel, but you just need to create a htaccess file in the directory you wish to not list the files with this code:

CODE

# This will not show anything
IndexIgnore *
#This will not show gif and png images, but will list everything else
IndexIgnore *.gif *.png

Hope that is what you wanted.

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Mark420

Sep 21 2006, 08:34 AM

I guess you should make a copy of this file and drop into every directory...cos if there is a page there it will see it..if not it display an error403 right?

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Niran

Sep 21 2006, 09:08 AM

after putting that .htaccess file in the directory "files"
Its showing like this

But what I need to show something like 403 Error page like this
( here simply copied 403.shtml file to the directory and renamed it as index.html )

I dont want to display 403 error by copying that page in all the directories!
All I need to show one 403 error page If there is no default page in the directory!

( My previous hosting server automatically disables the directory listing and will show the 403.shtml page if there is no default page to display! )

I need to do like that! Is there any other method my dear friends!

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Mark420

Sep 21 2006, 09:15 AM

Remember the custom error page thread?

go back to it and follow what I did...I think this is the answer;)

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yordan

Sep 21 2006, 11:07 AM

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Remember the custom error page thread?

My thread ? Yes, I remember it. And, yes, looks exactly what Niran wants to do. And, yes, the explanations were so clear that I will try using them to do my own 403, 404 error pages as soon as I will leave today !

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jlhaslip

Sep 22 2006, 01:45 AM

Silly suggestion, maybe, but add an index.html. Maybe even an index.php with a re-direct to the 403 page?

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vujsa

Sep 22 2006, 03:21 AM

Wow, so much disucussion about such a simple thing:
goto cPanel > Index Manager

This will give a error 403 Forbidden if there isn't an index.*** available.

The other option is to just put an index.html/php/asp/ext in each directory with no data in it. This will display a blank page if the directory is acessed without a page specified.

Hope This Helps.

vujsa

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Niran

Sep 22 2006, 04:38 AM

QUOTE(vujsa @ Sep 22 2006, 08:51 AM)

Wow, so much disucussion about such a simple thing:
goto cPanel > Index Manager

This will give a error 403 Forbidden if there isn't an index.*** available.

The other option is to just put an index.html/php/asp/ext in each directory with no data in it. This will display a blank page if the directory is acessed without a page specified.

Hope This Helps.

vujsa

Hey,
thats great dude!
That method is working!
Now showing the forbidden message by disabling the index for my images folder!
Thanks a lot friend!
I'm a newbie to the cPanel! so I was not much aware of those functions in cPanel!
thank you very much friend!

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