How to deny directory listing?

[Sitara Lal]

To my chagrin I just noticed that viewers of my FP2003 site can view all the
files in my directory: Entering www.mysite.com/Directory/ generates a page
listing all my files in the 'Directory' folder.

How can I deny this directory listing to my viewers?

 

[Trevor Lawrence]

To my chagrin I just noticed that viewers of my FP2003 site can view all
the files in my directory: Entering www.mysite.com/Directory/ generates a
page listing all my files in the 'Directory' folder.

How can I deny this directory listing to my viewers?

Unfortunately, www.mysite.com does exist as a genuine website, so I can't
see what you mean.

However, if you add a "home page" (e.g. index.html - depending on what your
site uses) to that directory, the problem should go away

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

Contact your host to turn of Directory Listing
- or at Trevor points out, add a home page file in all folders with a redirect to the root home page
(like index .htm if that is your home page file name)

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| To my chagrin I just noticed that viewers of my FP2003 site can view all the
| files in my directory: Entering www.mysite.com/Directory/ generates a page
| listing all my files in the 'Directory' folder.
|
| How can I deny this directory listing to my viewers?
|
|

 

[P@tty Ayers]

To my chagrin I just noticed that viewers of my FP2003 site can view all
the files in my directory: Entering www.mysite.com/Directory/ generates a
page listing all my files in the 'Directory' folder.

How can I deny this directory listing to my viewers?

In that directory, place a page named index.htm. It can be a blank page.
That will prevent people from viewing the list of files. It's that simple.

 

[Andrew Murray]

You would normally get your host to do this, or it can be done through your
hosting account's control panel (like CPanel).

 

[P@tty Ayers]

It's also normal to simply add a default file to the directory, too.

 

[Helpful person]

To my chagrin I just noticed that viewers of my FP2003 site can view all the
files in my directory: Enteringwww.mysite.com/Directory/generates a page
listing all my files in the 'Directory' folder.

How can I deny this directory listing to my viewers?

Files in the protected directory or those in sub webs with password
protection cannot be seen.

www.richardfisher.com

 

[Larry]

What you can also do is place in each sub-directory an index.htm/html page
that advises the viewer they are viewing an unauthorized directory and then
after 15 seconds or so re-directs the page to the authorized entry point in
your root directory. As I remember, by default when someone goes to /selects
a sub-directory the browser automatically looks for an index.htm/html page.
Larry