Nt the most elegant way to do it, but until you can put Joshua's solution up, why don't you just create a blank index.html... (you must have DirectoryIndex index.html ) So if they try: www.myweb.com/welcome/ It would open that blank page. Cheers, Ismael ________________________________ De: Alain Roger [mailto:raf.news@xxxxxxxxx] Enviada em: domingo, 20 de janeiro de 2008 08:02 Para: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Assunto: Re: how to avoid content folder to by read Hi Joshua, i did the following thing but it does not work, even if i restarted apache services (under windows) <Directory "D:/webserver/myweb/welcome/"> Options -Indexes Deny from all </Directory> what's wrong ? A. On Jan 19, 2008 7:56 PM, Joshua Slive <joshua@xxxxxxxx> wrote: On Jan 19, 2008 1:00 PM, Alain Roger <raf.news@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know how to avoid any user to read the content of my > website folder using is browser? > i mean the if i have the following thing : > > www.myweb.com/welcome/welcome.php > www.myweb.com/welcome/info.php > > if user type www.myweb.com/welcome/, he will see 2 files and the parent > directory tree :-( See: http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/DirectoryListings You can fix this with <Directory /full/path/to/welcome> Options -Indexes </Directory> and possibly DirectoryIndex welcome.php Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Alain ------------------------------------ Windows XP SP2 PostgreSQL 8.2.4 / MS SQL server 2005 Apache 2.2.4 PHP 5.2.4 C# 2005-2008 No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.7/1233 - Release Date: 19/1/2008 18:37 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.7/1233 - Release Date: 19/1/2008 18:37 --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx