Often when you’re using shared hosting, there are some problems with directory listing. Server administrators should avoid this as this represents a security hole. But what to do if you don’t have access to httpd conf and need to prevent directory listing? What to do if you have something like this:

A simple string in .htaccess [...]

Sometimes you need to deny directory listing on user input. For example, you don’t want your blog to be accessed at http://yoursite.com/blog, using only http://yoursite.com/blog/. This slash is added by mod_dir, that allows automatic adding of trailing slashes. A “trailing slash” redirect is issued when the server receives a request for a URL http://servername/foo/dirname where [...]