Posted by Els on 07/26/06 22:58

dorayme@optusnet.com.au wrote:

> Els wrote:
>
>> dorayme wrote:
>>
>>> In article <1ryk63f9yxd31$.hzeg98irylc2.dlg@40tude.net>,
>>> Els <els.aNOSPAM@tiscali.nl> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Did you look at your error log? The 'options -indexes' thing must be
>>>> enabled, otherwise it just gives an error when you try to access
>>>> anything in a folder with that in the .htaccess.
>>>
>>> I will need to look at this business of "enabling" it seems.
>>> Where to start?
>>
>> In the config file of Apache - but you're on a shared server?
>> Just look in the logfiles. If it complains about the options, it needs
>> enabling. If it doesn't, there is an other problem.
>>
>> However, if the server isn't yours to configure, you probably have
>> CPanel, and you can use the Index Manager there to close open
>> directories.
>
> htaccess, shmaccess! It has given me a headache.
>
> For now, I have implemented a simple solution with not much of a
> downside (for what I want). Why didn't I think of it before? I have
> just put an index file with a notice to say the directory listing is
> denied at the levels I want. Yes, this means people need a specific url
> to a file in these cases. But that is fine. I do this a lot, when
> things overpower my brain, I go primitive... :-)
>
> [I am posting from Google - sorry Blinkey - because it is too much
> trouble finding things in MT-Newswatcher that are no longer currently
> talked about. I wonder if there is a way to look at Google, find the
> thread and go back and use the MT to continue the thread without losing
> the right headers and all that super scientific stuff so that it looks
> like a "natural" reply to the post. Probably too much trouble. I am
> also wondering if these remarks are any kind of deeper OT to the thread
> heading that was originally so shameleessly veered off]

Just a reply so that Blinky can read it :-)

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