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How to turn off index viewing by default in EA?

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by dwh2, Feb 26, 2008.

  1. dwh2

    dwh2 Well-Known Member

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    I don't want people to be able to surf directories by default if there's no index.html file in a directory. I thought I set that up somewhere in WHM, but I guess not.

    I notice that EA3 builds Apache with this directive:

    Code:
    <Directory "/usr/local/apache/htdocs">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all

</Directory>
    If I want it turned off, do I just remove "Indexes" above and run that cpanel program to register the change? Or is it somewhere else?

    Also, may I add a feature request that you add this option into the EA3 builder so we can turn indexes on/off in the httpd.conf by default and let the users override our serverwide default... For security I think directory browsing off would be better.

    P.S. a similar suggestion would be not to default ServerTokens FULL as default...although I changed it to Prod and checked in a server headers tool and it's still showing my PHP version for some reason...
     
    #1 dwh2, Feb 26, 2008
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    cPanelDavidG Technical Product Specialist

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    Individual account owners can turn off index viewing by going to cPanel -> Advanced -> Index Manager.
     
    #2 cPanelDavidG, Feb 26, 2008
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    OK, how about the reverse...turning it off by default serverwide? That's what I was looking for.
     
    #3 dwh2, Feb 26, 2008
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    in the servers /home create a .htaccess with the following:

    Options All -Indexes
     
    #4 jayh38, Feb 26, 2008
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    Thanks...so just /home/.htaccess and it will propagate to the directories below it?

    Wow, cool.
     
    #5 dwh2, Feb 27, 2008
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    Yep you got it..
     
    #6 jayh38, Feb 27, 2008
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    If you enable index viewing by default, why not give people the option to turn off index viewing when compiling apache?

    Don't most hosts/server owners have indexing turned off for security reasons? Why enable it server wide by default if generally only a handful of users on a server might actually be interested in it. IMO it makes more sense to disable it by default and have the few users that need it enable it in their own cpanel account.
     
    #7 jamesbond, Feb 27, 2008
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    That sounds like a good idea for an official feature request. You can submit official feature requests to http://bugzilla.cpanel.net
     
    #8 cPanelDavidG, Feb 27, 2008
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    Wow, isn't that a bit too big, instead of just modifying the vhost templates and to add -Indexes to Options?
     
    #9 mstuebner, Feb 27, 2008
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    That's what I meant to say in the first post.
     
    #10 dwh2, Feb 27, 2008
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    Im fairly new to this, but I have the understanding that using .htaccess files will create a recursive search through the subdirectories.
    Could someone more knowledgeable please elaborate on the consequences, compared to using a directive instead?
     
    #12 cesare, Sep 12, 2008
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