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wasn't sure on which forum to post this, so since this is server scripting matter I thought this forum would be best

anyway,
I can't get htaccess to deny directory listing. Would anyone have the correct code ?

thanks

Chuck

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or just drop a blank index.html file in there.

[ April 17, 2001 11:48 AM: Message edited by: Sally ]

tried that but then I get 500 errors on my scripts and can't access the files

hmmm, not sure why it's doing that.

For now I suggest you just drop the empty index.html in there.

k thanks anyway

a. I think you can do
Options -Indexes

b. 500 ISE's can also mean an error in .htaccess

my guess is that because 'ExecCGI' is one of the 'options', the fact that you don't have that doesn't let you execute CGI scripts?

thanks I'll give it a try

First, create the HTML page you want to use as your error message.
Second, upload it to your web directory [/home/$user/$domain-www].
Third, go into your .htaccess file (or create one) and add lines which specify the substitution.

Here are three examples of specifying error documents which will be called for a given error condition (note you can use relative or absolute addressing):

ErrorDocument 401 http://domain.com/nopasswd.html
ErrorDocument 403 /forbidden.html
ErrorDocument 404 http://www.domain.com/nofile.html

a) he doesn't want to use custom error messages, but to deny directory listings

b) /home/$user/$domain-www is on Alabanza servers. not all servers use that directory structure.

sorry, copied and pasted the wrong one. Just change the /home/$user to whatever yours is but this is how mine works.

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The directory you want protected must have a .htaccess file in it that looks like the following (do not put the comments in the actual .htaccess file [comments begin with #]):

AuthUserFile /home/$user/.passwd
AuthGroupFile /home/$user/.group
AuthName "Protected Space"
AuthType Basic

require group $users #users, is the group of users that you give access to
#require user $user #if there is only one user in the group, you can substitute this line; remove the #.


(Other possible groups are administrators, etc)

Groups and users are stored in the .group file, and passwords are stored in .passwd. The .htaccess file looks for these files in the /home/$user directory. Do not attempt to edit these manually! Use the Control Panel function 'Protect Directories' to edit these files for you. With this function you can select the directory to be protected, then add users and their passwords that will have access. -----------------------------------------

FDSA, I tried your code, it works well but I still have a problem, SSI is not parsed anymore, would you know which tag I need to add ?

wnxwakko, thanks for the help but I am not trying to protect a directory