Deny access to website folders

Question

I have seen several websites: for example http://www.website.com/images/pic001.jpg And when I try to access http://www.website.com/images/ is prohibited. That is exactly what I

Answer 1

You likely mean to allow access to the images but preventing browsing. You can disable browsing of a folder when there is no index if you add Options -Indexes into your .htaccess in your images folder.

Answer 2

You can add Options -Indexes into the .htaccess file in the images folder, this results in a forbidden message if one tries to access /images/, but access to /images/pic001.jpg is still possible.

For more information see here: http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/DirectoryListings