拒绝从直接网址访问文件夹

Question

So I've found many posts here on how to do a similar action, however, I'm still confused. So here is my question. I want to have access to www.mywebsite/folder/index.html but if I were to remove the index.html and just type in www.mywebsite/folder/ I don't want to have access to that. How can I go about doing this? I read that I can use an .htaccess file with deny from all but that restricts me from the whole folder and I can't access the index.html.

Please let me know if there is a solution or another post that I missed that outlines the exact situation.

Thank you!

Answer 1

Which Apache version are you using? In 2.4, you can use DirectoryIndex disabled to stop it from automatically serving up the index.html, and combine that with Options -Indexes.

In lower versions disabled does not exist yet, so using mod_rewrite with a simple RewriteRule that forbids access when the exact folder path (with or without trailing slash) was requested should do it,

RewriteRule ^folder/?$ - [F,L]

To control what error message the user gets to see in each case, specify the ErrorDocument for the 403 Forbidden status code.