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Options -Indexes not working

I am trying to configure a new droplet to disable Indexes on Apache2. However, no matter how I do it, I am able to view the index:

<Directory /var/www/> Options FollowSymLinks Options -Indexes AllowOverride None Require all granted </Directory>

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Then when I load my droplet IP - http://xx.xx.xx.xx, I see the directory contents.

Any ideas what I’m doing wrong please? Thank you

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appl3s • March 4, 2019
Accepted Answer

Ok, I’ve finally figured this out. Chalk it up to newbiness.

To anyone else having this issue - after some digging around, I noticed that /etc/apache2/sites-enabled had its own conf, which I believe is what @jarland was noting above as being a vhost conf? My understanding was that vhost was not enabled by default. But it seems it is?

Anyway, putting my conf directives in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf, followed by a restart, worked as expected.

Thank you

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jarland • March 4, 2019

Hey friend,

Make sure there are not any other configurations that may be overriding this. For example, if you’re placing that in the virtual host config then it might be overridden by /etc/apache2/apache2.conf. This is in my default install right now, for example:

<Directory /var/www/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Require all granted
</Directory>

Jarland

appl3s • March 4, 2019

Thank you for the reply, @jarland . At the moment I am not using vhost. The conf is made directly in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf:

<Directory /var/www/> Options -FollowSymLinks -Indexes AllowOverride None Require all granted

    <LimitExcept GET POST>
            Deny from all
    </LimitExcept>

</Directory>

There is no ‘<Directory /var/www/html>’ and the actual /var/www/html directory is empty, meaning no .htaccess.

Any ideas please? Thank you

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