<html><body>Hi Will,<br /><br />Welcome to the list!<br /><br />On 15 June 2011 20:08, Will Earnshaw <will.earnshaw@gmail.com> wrote:<br />> Hey everyone!<br />><br />> I'm Will. I run an Ubuntu Server 10.04 box remotely <br /><br />Nice to get the background.<br /><br />> I've recently installed Apache web server and managed to get it to run<br />> several websites that I own. However, I've noticed that when you type a<br />> directory into the url bar (i.e www.example.co.uk/main/) it shows an FTP<br />> like read out of the files within that directory, including the behind the<br />> scenes php scripts. Is it possible to stop it doing this?<br /><br />One of the "must do's" on setting a secure apache webserver environment is to disable directory browsing. As a default Apache will be compiled with this option enabled. Google: apache "disable directory browsing"<br /><br />> P.S. I've never used a mailing list before, so hopefully this all works!<br /><br />Glad to see you persevered in signing up :-)<br /><br /> <br />
Best Regards,<br />Fay<br />East Grinstead Linux User Group<br />www.eglug.org.uk<br /><br /></body></html>