deny directory listing with htaccess

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I have a folder  for example    public html Davood  and too many sub folder in folder  for example    public html Davood Test1     public html Davood Test1 Test     public html Davood Test2         I want add a htaccess file into  public html Davood  To deny DirectoryListing In  Davood And Sub Folders  It s Possible

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Options -Indexes should work to prevent directory listings   If you are using a  htaccess file make sure you have at least the  allowoverride options  setting in your main apache config file

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Options -Indexes   I have to try create  htaccess file that current directory that i want to disallow directory index listing  But  sorry i don t know about recursive in  htaccess code   Try it

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For showing Forbidden error then include these lines in your  htaccess file   Options -Indexes    If we want to index our files and showing them with some information  then use   IndexOptions -FancyIndexing   If we want for some particular extension not to show  then   IndexIgnore   zip   css

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There are two ways     using  htaccess   Options -Indexes create blank index html

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If Options -Indexes does not work as Bryan Drewery suggested  you could write a recursive method to create blank index php files   Place this inside of your base folder you wish to protect  you can name it whatever  I would recommend index php    lt  php  recurse        function recurse  path       foreach scandir  path  as  o           if  o         amp  amp   o                        full    path          o              if is dir  full                    if  file exists  full     index php                         file put contents  full     index php                                          recurse  full                                      gt    These blank index php files can be easily deleted or overwritten  and they ll keep your directories from being listable

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Options -Indexes returns a 403 forbidden error for a protected directory  The same behaviour can be achived by using the following Redirect in htaccess    RedirectMatch 403   folder       This will return a forbidden error for example com folder     You can also use mod-rewrite to forbid a request for folder   RewriteEngine on  RewriteRule  folder    -  F    If your htaccess is in the folder that you are going to forbid   change RewriteRule s pattern from  folder    to

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Agree that  Options -Indexes   should work if the main server is configured to allow option overrides  but if not  this will hide all files from the listing  so every directory appears empty    IndexIgnore

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Try adding this to the  htaccess file in that directory   Options -Indexes   This has more information

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Options -Indexes  perfectly works for me    here is  htaccess file     lt IfModule mod rewrite c gt       lt IfModule mod negotiation c gt          Options -MultiViews -Indexes  lt ---- This Works for Me         lt  IfModule gt           etc stuff   lt  IfModule gt    Before     After

[apache] deny directory listing with htaccess

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