Topic: Hide Directory Listing Help

[mcbmail]

I am very new to manually configuring the Apache Webserver. I currently have a setup used to serve a SMF 1.2.2 forum. I originally had the problem of when i typed in my url it showed the listing of files in that root directory. I found the setting to point to index.php instead of index.html.

However if i have to reference other directories to serve content, how do i hide the file listing?

Right now if someone was to follow up the link http://forum.hosteng.com/wn/ it shows the index for that directory.

Also if you can suggest any other resources for administering and securing Apache on a Windows server that would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Matt

[tdonovan]

The Options directive in your httpd.conf file controls whether directory listings are produced - specifically, the Indexes argument to Options.

The default value for Options in the <Directory> section of httpd.conf which controls your web root is:

[mcbmail]

Thank you for the help. That worked great. Starting to get the hang of the syntax. And that docs page will help out a lot.

Cheers,

matt