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Ho to hidden the folder on ubuntu server?

Posted on April 18, 2014

Suppose My site Url sitename/<folder name>/<folder name>/<folder name>/index.php When i enter the url like this sitename/<folder name>/<folder name>/ User can see what are folder is available under this url . I don’t want to show the folder how to block this.



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For Apache: <br>Add the following line to your .htaccess file. <br> <br>Options -Indexes <br> <br>Make sure you hit the ENTER key (or RETURN key if you use a Mac) after entering the “Options -Indexes” words so that the file ends with a blank line. <br> <br>For Nginx: <br>Try something like this in config file: <br> <br>location /{ <br> root /home/yozloy/html/; <br> index index.html; <br> autoindex on;
<br>} <br> <br> <br>“autoindex” is the key, u can google it. <br> <br>The answers are all googled.

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