[martha.a]

(Sorry if I post on the wrong forum)

I have a site www[dot]mysite[dot]com and a directory in it "folder" for example.
When I browse the address www[dot]mysite[dot]com/folder/ I see the content of the entire directory.
Why is that?

I do not want this directory contents to be public.

[Sequal7]

Your server has directory browsing on, you can turn it off.
If your host uses cPanel WHM, you can turn it off. Login to your cPanel user account, Select Index Manager

Or, no cPanel, Look for a .htaccess file in your www folder (or create one using notepad)

add this to it (or create this in notepad and save it as .htaccess and upload it to your server.)

Options -Indexes

[MMJ]

Put an empty index file in each dir.

i.e. index.html

[namenotfound]

Originally Posted by MMJ

Put an empty index file in each dir.

i.e. index.html

Waste of time and resources. The .htaccesss approach is the best way to go with this.

[MMJ]

Originally Posted by namenotfound

Waste of time and resources. The .htaccesss approach is the best way to go with this.

Resources? I would prefer the empty index file. Easy, quick, and more customizable. Also if you want to have indexes for a certain dir than you can more easily control that.

[namenotfound]

Originally Posted by MMJ

Resources? I would prefer the empty index file. Easy, quick, and more customizable. Also if you want to have indexes for a certain dir than you can more easily control that.

Yes resources. Let's say you have 100 of those blank index.html files, as 1KB a piece. That's 100KB worth is wasted disk space.

And if you want a certain directory to have an index list, just add an extra .htaccess file in that one directory to allow it. It's much easier, faster, and less resource consuming, than having to place an index.html file in EVERY directory you don't want access to.

Doing it the way you suggested is NOT more customizable, it's being too lazy to do it the right way.

[MMJ]

WHAT???

If they are empty why would they be 1kb???

Also I am assuming the OP only has one or two dirs.

Also unless I am very much mistaken vB puts empty index files in all it's dirs. While you could argue that this is so that it works on windows servers (which don't have .htaccess) this proves my point, more customizable and compatible.

It is NOT less resource consuming; .htaccess gives commands to apache, while index.html just sits as an empty file (0 bytes ).

And of course it is more customizable, disagreeing with that makes no sense.

[Eriksrocks]

I would go with the .htaccess...

[MMJ]

Originally Posted by Eriksrocks

I would go with the .htaccess...

Each to his own.