Hide file and directory in apache disabling browsing

Posted by Matteo Mattei ~ 14th May 2008

Today I’m happened to disable file and directory browsing on my web server that after my work showed all its content. Shortly, to prohibit that every users can view the content of a directory (if noindex.php/index.html is present) occur a little modifying to configuration file of apache or a new directive in .htaccess.

I’ll show you how to do in both cases…

1. httpd.conf / virtual-host
   Edit your virtualhost adding these rows:

   <Directory "/home/httpd/html/mydomain/files">
   Options -Indexes
   </Directory>
   

2. .htaccess
   Add in the .htaccess file this row:

   Options -Indexes

In the first case you need to restart apache server.