Turn off Directory Browsing / Indexing

RH 9.0
Apache 2.0.x

I would like to turn off the ability of the general public to come to my web
site and browse my directories. I know that putting a index.html inside
each subdirectory will solve this but isn't there a configuration option to
turn off directory browsing / indexing?

What is the command to turn off Directory Browsing / Indexing (and where do
I put it)

-Thanks
-Tom

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 16:23:19 GMT, The Other Guy responded to a post
from "Tom Celica" <jhonda RemoveThis @juno.com> who wrote in
alt.apache.configuration:

 >RH 9.0
 >Apache 2.0.x
 >
 >I would like to turn off the ability of the general public to come to my web
 >site and browse my directories. I know that putting a index.html inside
 >each subdirectory will solve this but isn't there a configuration option to
 >turn off directory browsing / indexing?
 >
 >What is the command to turn off Directory Browsing / Indexing (and where do
 >I put it)
 >
 >-Thanks
 >-Tom


In the appropriate directory container(s), add or modify:

Options -Indexes

See <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#options" target="_blank">http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#options</a>

The result should be an "error" page delivered to the client when they
view a directory.

--
../configure --prefix=~/zyterion
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