[SOLVED] hide directory index

[raman]

I want the user not to see the index of my web directory, without creating a .htaccess file or a blank index.html file

 

Please suggest.

[trq]

The only thing you can do is switch it off in your httpd.conf file or VirtualHost directive if you have sufficient permissions to do so.

[raman]

The only thing you can do is switch it off in your httpd.conf file or VirtualHost directive if you have sufficient permissions to do so.

 

Please explain how to do this.

 

 

[trq]

Place the following line within your httpd.conf file.

 

Indexes off

[raman]

I tried to add the line Indexes off at different places in the httpd.conf file

and then gave the command to restart apache but this gives an error:

Invalid command 'Indexes', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration.

Please suggest.

 

[corbin]

Options -Indexes

[raman]

Options -Indexes

 

This also did not work, can you tell where exactly to add this line in httpd.conf ?

[corbin]

Well settings in httpd.conf are applied in the order of the file, so at the end if you want it to apply to all files.  You might also want to put it in a <Directory> statement.

[raman]

Thank you, this worked. I used the following:

<Directory /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/bladirectory >

  Options -Indexes

</Directory>

 

I want to be able to see the index locally on my machine or from any machine on my network, what more should I add in this ?

[corbin]

It won't be worth the effort.

 

 

 

But if you really want to do it, you could probably do it with an IfDefined SetVar and maybe some other stuff.