How to prevent Apache from listing directory contents?

changhai

Hi, fellow programmers, does anyone remember how to prevent Apache from listing directory contents? I know adding a dummy index.html file to each of the directory will do the job, but there is a way to configure Apache so it will not list directory contents by default, anyone remember how to do it? Thanks a lot.

changhai

In case someone else has the same problem, edit the httpd.conf file (usually located in /etc/httpd/), change the line
Options Indexes ...
associated to your web root directory to
Options None
and restart Apache. Cheers!