What is the way to prevent directory listing!!!

What is the way to prevent directory listing!!!

Hi Dear,

If you want to create a new director (folder) on your website and did not put an “index.html” file in it. You may be surprised to know that your visitors can get a directory listing of all the files in that folder. For example: If you create a folder called “Incoming”. You can see everything in that directory by simply typing http://www.example.com/incoming/ in your browser. No password or anything is needed.

Perquisites.

• You website must be on an Apache web server
• You web host must have Enabled HT Access Server Override

First Solution

• Following Steps to do for preventing a Directory Listing
• Get your existing HT Access File (If any)
• Make a backup of the HT Access File
• Create or open this HT Access file
• Disable Indexing
• Saving and uploading the File
• Test you website

Second Solution

• You can control this behavior of your website by using one simple line
• Option +Indexes
• The above line enables director listing
• Option -Indexes
• The above line disables director listing for your website
• The HT Access file gives more than simply enabling and disabling of directory listings
• The HT Access file you can control which files to be ignored when creating a directory list
• For Example,
• Index ignored: *.gif, *.zip, *.txt
• Will make the Apache server to skill all fig, zip and txt files from the directory list.
• Convenient, isn’t it.
• Index ignore *
• Will just create an empty director list

Hope these solution are helpful for you.