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Neel
Neel

Reputation: 9880

Deny Access to Folders but not Files in it

I am currently on a shared host and my files and folders are placed inside "public_html". In this, I have a folder that consists more folders inside it along with many pdf files. So the folder looks like this:

FOLDER/folder1/xyz.pdf

FOLDER/folder2/abc.pdf

etc..etc..

I am trying to figure out a way to deny access to the folder directly through a browser but not deny access to the files in it. At the moment, when someone goes to my site as www.mysite.com/FOLDER, you can access the folder and see its contents through a browser itself. But I dont want to deny complete access to the folder since I have links to its pdf files in some of other pages on my site like: Click here

Can someone guide me on I can restrict the direct access to the folder but not deny access to its files plz?

EDIT: I am thinking, do I just create an index.html file in every folder?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2594

Answers (2)

Hristo Enev
Hristo Enev

Reputation: 2541

Better solution will be to use

Options -Indexes

It will forbid the contents of a directory to be displayed if it has no index file. The best thing is that it will not display the header of the directory like

IndexIgnore *

Cheers, Chris

Upvotes: 3

SteveLacy
SteveLacy

Reputation: 4161

I would suggest using htaccess and adding the IndexIgnore command:

IndexIgnore *

Put it in a file and call it .htaccess (Not .htacces.txt, only .htaccess)

Another option is to prevent only one kind of file from being indexed:

IndexIgnore *.pdf

You can ignore any file type: " *.pdf *.zip *.jpg *.png *.html(bad idea! :P )"

I hope this helps :)

Upvotes: 4

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