Preventing directory listing

[sawanbanna]

if you want to "Disable directory file list view" on 50webs server paid plans, you mush use this option on .htaccess

IndexIgnore *

the * means all files

you can specify any file types from viewing for example:

IndexIgnore *.gif *.jpg

This would return a list of all files not ending in .jpg or .gif, but would still list .txt, .html, etc.

please avoid to use

Options +Indexes

and

Options -Indexes

because 50webs server disable this option by default...otherwise you will get the error message something like this:

Code:

Server error!

The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request. Either the server is overloaded or there was an error in a CGI script.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 500
www.sawanbanna.com
Thu Jul 6 04:25:01 2006
Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux) mod_auth_pgsql/2.0.2b1 mod_ssl/2.0.54 OpenSSL/0.9.7e

hope this will help all paid plans users.

Thank you for using 50Webs hosting... :-D

[Rose1812]

Preventing directory listings can be very useful if for example, you have a directory containing important '.zip' archive files or to prevent viewing of your image .