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How To Deny Directory Listing Using .htaccess

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 file will… Read More »

Disable Directory Listing Without Slash – Apache Config

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 dirname is a… Read More »