cPanel
's installation by default installs and enable mod_autoindex
. This causes Apache
to display the list of files and folders of a directory whenever DirectoryIndex
files such as index.html
or index.php
are not present.
You can typically edit Apache
HTTP server configuration file to disable directory listing, but it's not accessible from a cPanel
account.
You can disable directory browsing in Apache
for cPanel
from the cPanel
's dashboard.
cPanel
account.Advanced
section and click on Indexes
. Click on the folder icon to browse the directory and click on the folder name to select the particular directory.
public_html
is the root of the web folder and selcting it will apply the setting to all the subsequent subfolders. Some hosting also has www
which is just a softlink to public_html
so effectively they're both the same directory
No indexing
from the option and click on the Save
button.
What happens in the background is cPanel
will append the following line to the folder's .htaccess
file to disable directory listing.
Options -Indexes
New .htaccess
file will be created if it doesn't already exist.
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