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in reply to preventing directory browsing

Dropping a blank index.html file in each of the directories should work. Try placing one at the top of your directory tree and it'll 'hide' any directories below (by not allowing a client to see them in the first place). One would have to do a darn good guessing job in order to get to the lower directories ;-)

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Re: Re: preventing directory browsing
by fsn (Friar) on May 02, 2003 at 09:18 UTC
    Yes, but....

    Beware that you will only hide the directories on the same level. If you link to any object on any other level, the user doesn't have to guess directories any more, and he can browse at least a subtree. Put empty index.html-files (or even perhaps with redirects) everywhere.

    If you're on an apache server, and it's configured to read .htaccess files, you can use it to turn off browsing for an entire subtree (if I remember correctly). However, what you can do with an .htacces-file depends on the server setup, so you have to ask the server administrators. Read all about .htaccess in this tutorial.

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Re: Re: preventing directory browsing
by db2admin (Acolyte) on May 02, 2003 at 04:59 UTC
    Thank you very much for your suggestion.

    David K.

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