Directory listing

Hi for sure 1000 times asked but the search does not give me an answer.
How can I prevent directory listing for my whole site?
I donīt want to place in each directory an index.html
Thank you in advance
Thomas

Put the following in your .htaccess file:

Options -Indexes

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Is that recursive to subdirectories?

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Is that recursive to subdirectories?

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Yes it is. Unless of-course, you override it with another .htaccess directive in the sub-directory itself.

Mark

Exactly what I was looking for! But... I do not have a .htaccess file, or so it seems. Can I create one? What should be in it?

Thanks.

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Can I create one?

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Yes, just create a file called .htaccess and upload it to the web-directory for your domain. Note, if you are using Windows you might have problems creating a file called .htaccess, if so, just create one called htaccess.txt and rename it after uploading it to your server.

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What should be in it?

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Just the directives you need, in this case a single line of text as follows;

Options -Indexes

Mark

Hi Mark. This doesn't seem to work. I can upload it fine but can still view the contents of a directory. What am I missing?

This is the output from ssh so you can see the file is in place:

[saltine]$ more .htaccess
Options -Indexes
[saltine]$

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This doesn't seem to work.

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Have you placed the file in the web-directory for your domain? By default this web-directory will have the same name as the domain (eg: yourdomain.com).

Mark

this works for me:

IndexIgnore *

Thanks guys, placed it in the wrong dir, it's OK now.