Forbid intry into my sub folders?

[Patti]

I have a graphics web site and I use a lot of sub-folders for different graphics. How is the best way to stop anyone from looking into my sub folders?
Thanks,
Patti

[Oldfrog]

If protecting those subdirectories with a password is an option there is a Password Protection feature in the Control Panel.

[Rye Seronie Oh]

Yeah. You can use the password protect feature in cPanel, or you can use the manual method, htaccess and htpasswd. That's what I do. cPanel's function is basically a graphical and easy to use front end for those tools.

[Ron]

You can stop them from looking at the directory listings by placing an index.html file in the directory with anything of your choice in it, or by placing a .htaccess file with (at least) one line:

OPTIONS -INDEXES

in the directory, or any parent directory.

Either will prevent people from LOOKING at your directories (in fact "OPTIONS -INDEXES") should be the default, it's possible that a parent directory has an "OPTIONS +INDEXES" that's currently overriding the system default.

Neither will prevent people from looking at individual files for which they already know (or can guess) the filenames.

Good luck.

[Vin DSL]

I have a graphics web site and I use a lot of sub-folders for different graphics. How is the best way to stop anyone from looking into my sub folders?
Thanks,
Patti

One thing I do is put empty (zero byte) 'index.html' files in all my folders. I do other things as well, but even if everything else fails, all 'they' will see is a blank white screen...

[Rye Seronie Oh]

Actually, it would be Options -Indexes. I thought that htaccess files were case sensitive?

You can stop them from looking at the directory listings by placing an index.html file in the directory with anything of your choice in it, or by placing a .htaccess file with (at least) one line:

OPTIONS -INDEXES

in the directory, or any parent directory.

Either will prevent people from LOOKING at your directories (in fact "OPTIONS -INDEXES") should be the default, it's possible that a parent directory has an "OPTIONS +INDEXES" that's currently overriding the system default.

Neither will prevent people from looking at individual files for which they already know (or can guess) the filenames.

Good luck.

[Ron]

Syntax of the Configuration Files
Apache configuration files contain one directive per line. The back-slash "\" may be used as the last character on a line to indicate that the directive continues onto the next line. There must be no other characters or white space between the back-slash and the end of the line.

Directives in the configuration files are case-insensitive, but arguments to directives are often case sensitive.

Source: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/configuring.html
[Emphasis Mine]