Hello

With a recent incident with my webserver and my ISP's abuse department I am curious about how you lock the webserver down so that people cannot view the directory structure of a site

I realize that putting and index page there will fix the problem but there are times when I want to link directly to a file. Other then putting the index page in the directory how else do you lock it down so that people cannot view the contents of the directory? Is there a something that can be added to the apache config file that will do this?

thanks in advance

gd

Hello,

You can disable Indexing either globally or for a directory. Having this paramter in the main httpd.conf/Virtual Host

Options -Indexes

Or you could configure it for a directory by not including the parameter Indexes which would disable it:

<Directory /var/www/html>
Options FollowSymLinks
</Directory>