Directory listing in htaccess. Allow, Deny, Disable, Enable Directory Listing in .htaccess

viralthakkar says:

this is really helpful details

Ricardo Zea says:

Is there a way to disable all browsing all directories except one?

For example, after applying “Options -Indexes”, can I create a rule to list items inside the ‘/pdf’ folder?

Thanks.

Ricardo Zea says:

Awesome! It worked perfectly!

Thanks Viral!

Trupti says:

Thanks Viral, I was looking for a solution for what Ricardo asked, and yours worked perfectly. Thanks! :)

Eli says:

The IndexIgnore * line seems to cause the whole thing not to work. This line tells the server to ignore all files in the directory listing. When I took out that line, I was able to see the directory properly.

Thanks!

Dan says:

Great! thanks!

Sachin says:

Nice mate.. :)

Vas says:

That’s very good information.
But, is there a way to set these listing permissions per directory, instead of document root?

Thanks..
Vas

takprosto says:

When I took out that line, I was able to see the directory properly.

Visakh says:

I have a problem in directory listing in http://3idiots.mobi/Downloads/ it doesn’t show a single file in the folder. I have updated .htaccess file and pasted Options +Indexes. then also it is showing blank page. What should i have to do.

Ramratan Gupta says:

Thank You

Dom @elevate says:

Got this to work where you deny public access but allows internal processes. Place this in the htaccess of the folder you want to restrict access to:

order deny,allow
deny from all

Ronald Sayerse says:

Thank you very much mate!

Randell says:

hi mate,

im using Clipbucket for a music site im building now clipbucket has like tons of Stuff in httacess file and the bulk of it’s stopping anyone from doing stuff they shouldn’t using scripts in url Ect exploits and it also blocks access to pages that clipbucket doesn’t use in it’s script this also means every folder i add on to the site Will not work, How would i block everything else or keep it the same i guess yet still allow access to Say /Forum or any extra folders i tack onto my domain, ? thanks in advance

lee says:

I added a new line ‘Options -Indexes’ in each .htaccess files,but the directories still display on browser. Can anybody give some more suggests? Thanks very much. [email protected] is my address.Hoping for that…

Jamesd says:

Cheers – took a while to track this down!

Julien says:

Hi guys

I have the same problem with a folder of my website.
I wrote the “Options -Indexes” in the root folder’s htaccess
and “Options +Indexes” in the folder /download (where I want all files to be listed)

The website works fine, but I get an error 500 while accessing to the /download folder

I’m hosted by OVH, but I can’t read anything about that in their forums

Thanks a lot !
Have a nice day

Paulo says:

THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Carmen says:

I have a problem, I need to protect some folder in my web through validation, i created an .htaccess and put it in this folder but this dissapear of my navigation tree , what is the the way that this folder appear again? but keeping the validation through user/passwd

babu says:

It’s really helpful for me, Thanks:)

Jorge Muralles says:

Hello everyone.

I got directory browsing working on my website.

I get a broken picture icon next the directories and files.

Here is the link:

http://www.newporttimesharesrus.com/websites/

I put this code in the .htacces file

Options +Indexes
IndexOptions +FancyIndexing

It does not do the job.

Can anyone help.

[email protected]

Victor says:

Thank you very much. This tutorial was very helpful.

I was looking for the function that prevented access to directories of my website.

Bumba says:

nice

Akarsh says:

Hi,

I have an issue.
I need to prevent DIRECT access to all .swf files in “localhost/mysite/sitesong/” directory [http://localhost/mysite/sitesong/abc.swf] but it should be able to be accessed if localhost/mysite/song.php is linking it inside tag.

For this, the following code is added in /sitesong/.htaccess file

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www.)?localhost/mysite [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www.)?localhost/mysite/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .(swf)$ - [F]

This code works for the Firefox and Chrome browser but in IE, though the .swf file is prevented from directly accessed but /song.php also is unable to access the swf files.

Any help would be appreciated.

Jan says:

Thanks! Works like a charm! No more access to folders. (:

Anand says:

Thanks!! really helpful.

Waldemar says:

How to allow directory access for all by htaccess?

jagadeesh says:

thanks a lot really helpful to me

Jarod Thornton says:

Thank you! This was very useful.

Arnaud says:

Useful post thanks

chris lee says:

Thank a lot! This was really helpful.

I am using a hosting service at bluehost and there

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .html .htm

seems to work.

SM. Kafi says:

Thanks, its really a good job…….

Vivek Moyal says:

I was using Options -Indexes but i got 404 error….. i am also hiding the extension of the page ….

jagadeesh says:

very useful content. thank you…

obaid says:

why this htaccess not working under my svn path and using full path
still displaying indexing even after placed htaccess in project1

http://IP/var/www/html/svn/project1/

KRISHNA TEJA says:

Thanks bro, it really helped me well….

PNR Status Check says:

I want don’t to index robots.txt, sitemap.xml and some specific pages. Will you tell me, how can I do it through htaccess? Any suggestion will be appreciated; thanks in advance.

Alexander says:

How to Directory access for all htaccess?

parvinder says:

Hello Admin,

I have a .bar website and I added ‘Options -Indexes’ in .htaccess file but still my all inner directory access by anyone. Can you please tell me what should I do for disable inner directory.

Waiting for your reply!

sanjay says:

thank’s, It’s very use bale tutorial

Gosamaango says:

Pretty Nice but i was searching something better like i want a user may not access my site while he get it to be download through some tools like httrack or something else how can i stop user like that
he downloads the whole design and everything

Achin says:

Thanks a lot, this helped a ton. With this i was able to forbid the directory browsing..

Bestariwebhost says:

Great Tutorial. Thanks for sharing

Alireza says:

It was realy useful, Thanks

Generalboxel says:

in the allow part some say it is not the website IP but the Localserver ip. what is the difference ?

Homesazeh says:

It was quite handy. need to make some changes in my code

Alireza says:

Hello all.
I have been using any possible code to restrict access to my .php root files but non seem to work. if they do they limit to access completely

Order Allow,Deny
Deny from all
Allow from xx.xx.xxx.xxx

I have replaced X with my IP but not working

Vikash kumar singh says:

Very helpful post for me.

Komala says:

It works on me. Thanks for this great article