Previous suggestions about putting a blank index.html in each directory that you do *NOT* want a directory listing to be generated in will work.

But, are you sure your web host's webserver config allows access to those directories other than cgi-bin?

I just looked in my apache httpd.conf file, and if I interpret this correctly it explains that the default setting of

<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
</Directory>

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for the root '/' directory, restricts access to that directory and all directories below, unless overridden by definitions for specific subdirectories(under '/'). So since this 'Directory /' definition(this is the default on my machine) doesn't specify 'Indexes', then no directory index listings will be generated for any directory unless expressly enabled by an 'Option Indexes' in a 'Directory' definition entered into the httpd.conf file.

So looks to me like you may(?) already be protected by your web host's webserver config. But if not, then either

  1. put a blank index.html in each directory you want to
     protect(against directory listing),
         OR
  2. assuming the webserver config is configured for it,
     you can also put a .htaccess file in each directory
     you want to protect.

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HTH.

In reply to Re: preventing directory browsing by hmerrill
in thread preventing directory browsing by db2admin

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