{"id":111,"date":"2011-06-03T15:22:36","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T15:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/?p=111"},"modified":"2011-08-11T06:02:14","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T06:02:14","slug":"how-to-disable-directory-browsing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/how-to-disable-directory-browsing\/","title":{"rendered":"How to disable directory browsing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>One of the must do on setting a secure Apache webserver is to disable directory browsing. This could prevent the server from showing a listing of the existing files if there’s no index in one folder.<\/p>\n

Disable directory browsing via .htaccess
\nAdd in the .htaccess file the following<\/p>\n

\r\nOptions -Indexes\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of the must do on setting a secure Apache webserver is to disable directory browsing. This could prevent the server from showing a listing of the existing files if there’s no index in one folder. Disable directory browsing via .htaccess Add in the .htaccess file the following Options -Indexes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13,5],"tags":[9,15,49,56,6,7],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-centos","category-cpanel","category-wordpress","tag-centos-2","tag-cpanel-2","tag-htaccess","tag-security","tag-wordpress-2","tag-wp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1pvi1-1N","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":62,"url":"https:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/how-to-disable-phpinfo\/","url_meta":{"origin":111,"position":0},"title":"How to disable phpinfo","author":"Pixel Insert \/ Pixert","date":"March 22, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The phpinfo() function is a very powerful one, \u00a0you can learn quite a lot about your PHP installation.\u00a0Some server administrators may choose to disable the PHP function phpinfo() for security reasons, because it displays information which can be used to compromise the server that your site is running on. 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