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Abhijit
Abhijit

Reputation: 73

Disable directory listing with a custom message using .htaccess

I want to disable a directory listing using .htaccess.

I don't want to show any 404 not found or 403 forbidden error messages.

Suppose when a user will try to access the directory www.mydomain.com/data/uploads, then only a custom message will show like Hi, this is not a page you are looking for.

Can anybody help me?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1109

Answers (2)

covener
covener

Reputation: 17886

An alternative option, which would send a 200 response and not use a custom errordoc for any other 403 in the same context, would be to set a low priority DirectoryIndex with your custom error message.

Options -Indexes
DirectoryIndex index.html lastchance.html

Upvotes: 1

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785276

You can use this code in your .htaccess:

# disable directory listing
Options -Indexes

# show a custom message
ErrorDocument 403 "Hi, this is not a page you are looking for"

Upvotes: 1

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