Disbable Global Server Directory Listing?

[shaky]

Is it possible to disbable the global server directory listing by default?

Whenever I design a site for a client I have to manually upload an .htaccess file to that particular account so that it disables directory listing on the site.

But does anyone know how I can disable directory listing for my entire server?

Is the answer in here somwhere?

SSH:

/usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf


Thanks....

[myrem]

Edit:
ack.
Scratch that... that's not going to work.

Anyone else?

[shaky]

Oops myrem, I just tried your post before you edited it...

Will revert, but thx.

[shaky]

Is this what it my code is supposed to look like myrem? I forgot...

#
# This may also be "None", "All", or any combination of "Indexes",
# "Includes", "FollowSymLinks", "ExecCGI", or "MultiViews".
#
# Note that "MultiViews" must be named *explicitly* --- "Options All"
# doesn't give it to you.
#
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

[myrem]

Originally posted by shaky
Is this what it my code is supposed to look like myrem? I forgot...

yeah, that's right.

I think the correct place to do it is:

# Each directory to which Apache has access, can be configured with respect
# to which services and features are allowed and/or disabled in that
# directory (and its subdirectories).
#
# First, we configure the "default" to be a very restrictive set of
# permissions.
# 
<Directory />
Options All 
AllowOverride All
</Directory>

On the above options lines. But tried adding "-Indexes" to it but that didn't help either.

[shaky]

Shame I was going to try that also

But thanks for trying.

[shaky]

Anyone any ideas...?

[alex042]

Under Options, have you tried just removing 'indexes'?

[shaky]

Yep, and also restarted apache but made no difference....

[Website Rob]

Originally posted by myrem
yeah, that's right.

I think the correct place to do it is:

# Each directory to which Apache has access, can be configured with respect
# to which services and features are allowed and/or disabled in that
# directory (and its subdirectories).
#
# First, we configure the "default" to be a very restrictive set of
# permissions.
# 
<Directory />
Options All 
AllowOverride All
</Directory>

On the above options lines. But tried adding "-Indexes" to it but that didn't help either.

Actually, you needed to go a bit lower down.

# This controls which options the .htaccess files in directories can
# override. Can also be "All", or any combination of "Options", "FileInfo",
# "AuthConfig", and "Limit"
#
AllowOverride None

#
# Controls who can get stuff from this server.
#
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

<Directory /home/*/public_html>
Options -Indexes
</Directory>

[shaky]

Thanks Website Rob it works!

[Tina]

That entire <Directory /home...> section is commented out in my httpd.conf

So right underneath it I inserted this (just like above)

<Directory /home/*/public_html>
Options -Indexes
</Directory>

restarted apache and it worked perfect!

Thanks!!!

Tina

[certify]

When I put try to disable directory listing using htaccess I get "Internal Server Error"

<Directory /home/*/public_html>
Options -Indexes
</Directory>

when I type the domain.com it will not forward to index.asp?

[anand]

Originally posted by certify
When I put try to disable directory listing using htaccess I get "Internal Server Error"

<Directory /home/*/public_html>
Options -Indexes
</Directory>

when I type the domain.com it will not forward to index.asp?

Try this

<Directory /home/username/public_html>
Options -Indexes
</Directory>

Substitute the username with your username.

Btw to make the domain auto forward to index.asp (hmm is it asp or its a typo ?) just edit /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf and locate this:

# DirectoryIndex: Name of the file or files to use as a pre-written HTML
# directory index. Separate multiple entries with spaces.
#

Below this you can put index.asp (if its not present).

[certify]

Yes it's .asp

Thanks for the tip.

I put a .php to do auto forwarding instead for the mean time.