How do I disable directory browsing?

Question

I want to disable directory browsing of /galerias folder and all subdirectories

Index of /galerias/409

* Parent Directory
* i126937298         


        

Answer 1

This is not an answer, just my experience:

On my Ubuntu 12.04 apache2, didn't find Indexes in either apache2.conf or httpd.conf, luckily I found it in sites-available/default. After removing it, now it doesn't see directory listing. May have to do it for sites-available/default-ssl.

Answer 2

The best way to do this is disable it with webserver apache2. In my Ubuntu 14.X - open /etc/apache2/apache2.conf change from

<Directory /var/www/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Require all granted
</Directory>

to

<Directory /var/www/>
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Require all granted
</Directory>

then restart apache by:

sudo service apache2 reload

This will disable directory listing from all folder that apache2 serves.

Answer 3

One of the important thing is on setting a secure apache web server is to disable directory browsing. By default apache comes with this feature enabled but it is always a good idea to get it disabled unless you really need it. Open httpd.conf file in apache folder and find the line that looks as follows:

Options Includes Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

then remove word Indexes and save the file. Restart apache. That's it

Answer 4

Apart from the aformentioned two methods (edit /etc/apache2/apache2.conf or add Options -Indexes in .htaccess file), here is another one

a2dismod autoindex

Restart the apache2 server afterwards

sudo service apache2 restart

Answer 5

Add this in your .htaccess file:

Options -Indexes

If it is not work for any reason, try this within your .htaccess file:

IndexIgnore *

Answer 6

To complete @GauravKachhadiya's answer :

IndexIgnore *.jpg

means "hide only .jpg extension files from indexing.

IndexIgnore directive uses wildcard expression to match against directories and files.

• a star character , it matches any charactes in a string ,eg : foo or foo.extension, in the following example, we are going to turn off the directory listing, no files or dirs will appear in the index :

  IndexIgnore *

Or if you want to hide spacific files , in the directory listing, then we can use

IndexIgnore *.php

*.php => matches a string that starts with any char and ends with .php

The example above hides all files that end with .php