Disallow browsing of a web directory's files

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on January 15, 2010 - 7:21am

All by itself in a .htaccess file in the directory of interest (and it covers subdirectories) this will do it, for an Apache webserver:

Options -Indexes

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htaccess prevent directory browsing .htaccess protect files directory hide files in folder for Apache server

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