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Maikeximu
Maikeximu

Reputation: 318

Forbid user to explore Index of/ with Jekyll

I have a problem which doesnt seem documented at all. When you type a custom url from a Jekyll blog, you can explore the site directory :

http://example.com/category/article (shows the article) -> If someone enters http://example.com/category/ which is not referenced in Jekyll, he can find this :

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I would like Jekyll (or htaccess i guess) to only display the pages i actually published. Maybe return a custom 404 page to reroute users. The main problem here is the SEO with Google which indexes this kind of content and it's ugly :)

Upvotes: 2

Views: 816

Answers (1)

David Jacquel
David Jacquel

Reputation: 52829

This because you don't have an index.html file in you folder.

The Jekyll way

On github pages, you will get a 404 error, not the directory listing.

On another type of host, you can use jekyll-redirect-from and make a 404.html page like this :

---
layout: default
title: 404 Not Foune
permalink: /404.html
redirect_from:
  - /category/
  - /other/folder/to/protect/
---

<h2>This is a 404 !</h2>

This will then create /category/index.html and /other/folder/to/protect/index.html files that redirect to the 404 page.

Dealing with apache

.htaccess

Options -Indexes
ErrorDocument 403 /path/from/root/404.html

This is ugly (return a 404 page for a 403 forbiden) but it does the trick.

Upvotes: 3

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