Topic: .htaccess simple question ?

[Gman]

I am trying to implement the .htaccess on my E-Sever (5.5 with updates) and I have a question ?  Has anyone tried the following on a 5.5 server ? If so, was it successful ?

http://sme.nightspirit.nl/howto/?id=1  (His site states it is for verson 5.1.2)

However, I have looked at the files from his site that I have downloaded, and it states for version 3 or 4 of e-smith server.  (Look at file name "90e-smithAccess40ibays")

My main reason for doing this is I want to stop directory browsing.  Is there an easier way of doing this without the .htaccess ?

Thanks,

G

[Abe Loveless]

Isn't that an option in the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file?

If so, just locate where it is set through the the template system (/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf/*) Then copy the appropriate fragment to /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf/FILENAME, make your changes in the copy then expand the template and restart apache.

Expand template:
/sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Restart Apache:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/apache restart

that make sense?

[gman]

That's what I thought also, however when I did that, nothing changed.  Now I may have not included everything as I am new to the template business, however this is what I did.

Created a file in the custom template area in the correct spot.

mkdir -p /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
pico /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf/88AllowOverride

#Added this to the new file called "88AllowOverride"#


Options None
AllowOverride All


Then expanded the template:

/sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Then restarted the httpd server:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart

However, I could never get it to work.  Everytime I went to the web server, I could still perform directory browsing.  I looked in the httpd.conf file and found where it added the text I created. But still it did not work.  The options "None" is what is suppose to stop the directory browsing.  I then added the AllowOverride "All" to try and have the .htaccess file do it for me.  But still no luck.

Also, I am wanting to know how do I remove the custom templete from the server.  Just remove the template and then what ?  

Thanks,

G

[Abe Loveless]

To remove the custom template, just remove the file and directory if it's empty, then re-expand the template and restart apache.  Just like you did above.

I'll look a little closer and see what if I can turn it off.

Let me know if you figure it out, before I do.

Thanks,
Abe

[Kirk Ferguson]

I discovered a simple fix when I had the same problem.  You can just put a blank index.html file in the directory.   It will be displayed instead of the directory listing.

[Crave]

Any update to this? I am running 5.6 and would also like to disable directory browsing.