Directories with no index file

Davide Bianchi wrote:
 > Vincent <vincent..RemoveThis@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
 >
  >>I was wondering if this was considered bad practice and if so, why ?
 >
 >
 > Is never a nice idea to have someone snooping at your filesystem.
 >
 >
  >>Is there a way to avoid this
 >
 >
 > Just use the Options -Indexes in your httpd.conf.
 >
 > Davide
 >

Since I only have access to .htaccess (I don't run Apache myself), I
added Options -Indexes as the only line of this file and put this file
in the directory I wanted to "hide" (share).
But then if I request a page that uses images in "share", pictures won't
get served (only get the ALT text).
If I directly ask for <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://site/share/" target="_blank">http://site/share/</a> I get a error 500 (internal
server error) : does this mean I have no right to use this Options line
? Or did I do something wrong ?

Thanks anyway for the idea.

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Vincent <vincent. RemoveThis @wanadoo.fr> wrote:
 > If I directly ask for <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://site/share/" target="_blank">http://site/share/</a> I get a error 500 (internal
 > server error) : does this mean I have no right to use this Options line
 > ? Or did I do something wrong ?

No, probably there is something wrong with the format of the .htaccess
file. If you created the file on Windows and then copied it on Unix
it's possible that the end-of-line chars (CR+LF) of Windows give
problems to Unix (that only uses LF). You should check the error log
of apache to be sure and to really see what's the problem.

Davide

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in .htaccess:

Options none


AR


Vincent wrote:

 > I've just set up a small web site served by Apache 1.3.29 and I have a
 > little concern about it : I have one directory called "shared" where I
 > put JavaScripts, pictures (basically non HTML stuff). There is no index
 > file in this directory.
 >
 > As a consequence, if you go to <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://site/shared/" target="_blank">http://site/shared/</a> Apache returns a list
 > of all existing files in this directory.
 >
 > I was wondering if this was considered bad practice and if so, why ? Is
 > there a way to avoid this (I thought of putting a fake empty index file,
 > but maybe there is something better : I searched for something like
 > DirectoryIndex none, but this doesn't exist...)
 >
 > --
 > Vincent
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