<OT> webpage index

[Tony Alfrey]

Jorge Almeida wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> 
>> Thanks in advance for help with this.
>>
>> Consider a URL with a directory like this:
>>
>> http://www.a_website.com/a_directory
>>
>> Without knowing that a directory exists with the name a_directory, or 
>> the names of files, html pages, whatever within a_directory, is it 
>> possible for anyone to actually see these files, html pages, whatever 
>> or to know that they exist?
>>
> Google "htaccess".
> In particular: http://www.freewebmasterhelp.com/tutorials/htaccess/2
> 
> In my case:
>     $ cat .htaccess
>     Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes Multiviews
> 
> (.htaccess is in the root directory; "Options -Indexes" prevents the
> apache server of displaying the listing of a directory.)



This is a great tutorial, thanks very much!


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