how do i turn off indexing in linux?

i have my own server and website, im tired of having to put up a index page so ppl cant see what is in my folder, so how do i turn that off i have heard it is called indexing, i would rather ppl get like a no permission error

 

By doing exactly what you are doing now; adding an index.html to the folder you don't want indexed.

 

Can't you change permissions with your ftp program?

 

I assume you want it to auto index your files for you? so you dont have to yes? Thats an apache httpd.conf option, check into that.

 

To prevent a directory from being displayed (Indexed), index.html must be present in the directory. Changing the folder permissions won't prevent it from displaying, if the files in the folder need to be accessed, remotely.

To prevent a directory from being crawled (spidered) you must include that directory in the robots.txt, example:

Code:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /private/

The above excludes all robots from crawling those directories. Warning, not all bots obey the robots.txt exclusions.

 

If he is paying for hosting, he isn't going to have access to httpd.conf. Especially, on a shared server.

 

I have a solution without you having to edit any configuration files.

Place the following line of the .htaccess in the root of your site:

Code:

Options -Indexes

This will prevent browsing of directories that don't contain a index.html

 

i own my own server, ill try what the next person suggested, thanks

 

i found the answer

<Directory /path/to/directory>
Options -Indexes
</Directory>

Insert into your apache config file and restart apache.