Re: protecting web directories in apache2

[Kushal Kumaran <kushal.kumaran+debian@gmail.com>]

Zachary Uram <netrek@gmail.com> writes:

> Running Apache2 on Debian testing release. Say I have a directory
> http://www.website.org/files/
> And I want to let a user download a file:
> http://www.website.org/files/example.txt
> But I don't want them to be able to browse the directory and see the
> other files in there.
> So how can I protect the directory?
>

Turn off the Indexes option for the directory.  See documentation for
the Options directive.

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regards,
kushal