From owner-freebsd-questions  Mon Oct 22 14: 8: 9 2001
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from webs1.accretive-networks.net (webs1.accretive-networks.net [207.246.154.13])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ACA037B405
	for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 14:08:06 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from localhost (davidk@localhost)
	by webs1.accretive-networks.net (8.11.1/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f9ML84916188;
	Mon, 22 Oct 2001 14:08:04 -0700 (PDT)
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 14:08:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Kirchner <davidk@accretivetg.com>
X-X-Sender:  <davidk@localhost>
To: "Dennis R. Abel" <Dennis@drabel.com>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Newbie Question
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20011022160130.00a5a3f0@127.0.0.1>
Message-ID: <20011022140715.E85958-100000@localhost>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
List-ID: <freebsd-questions.FreeBSD.ORG>
List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive)
List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions)
List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-questions>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-questions>
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Dennis R. Abel wrote:

> Can I, and if so, exactly how do I configure my httpd.conf to return this
> message when an attempt is made to list a directory:
>
> "Directory Listing Denied
> This Virtual Directory does not allow contents to be listed. "
>
> I would like to avoid having to put an index.html or .htaccess file in
> every  directory.
>
> Dennis

It won't be exactly like this (that's an IIS error if I'm not mistaken),
but you can effecively do that by setting "Options -Indexes" in your
docroot's .htaccess or in the appropriate place in the httpd.conf file.


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message