Need to hide website folder

[aowaow]

hi. how can i hide my website folder in ssl.
Example if you type

https://mydomain.com/ssl/(the_folder_without_backslash)

then it will pop-up my folder in the browser:

Parent directory...
folder1
folder2
file1
file2
file3
etc.etc.

How can I lock this as hidden or page not found.
Or.
Can I redirect it to the folder's index?

If i can, what should I use? how to put, in where and how?
thx before.

[eBoxNet]

You can prevent directory listing by creating an .htaccess file on your web folder.

Change your default directory page

This is a command which allows you to specify a file that is to be loaded as your default page whenever a directory or url request comes in, that does not specify a particular page.

[code:df171]DirectoryIndex filename.html[/code:df171]

This would cause filename.html to be the default page of your site, so http://www.yourdomain.com would not go to index.html, but to filename.html.

Redirects

If you change a section of your site structure, why leave people with a 404 when you can just redirect them?
[code:df171]
Redirect /olddirectory/oldfile.html http://yoursite.com/newdirectory/newfile.html[/code:df171]

If the user tries to access the old file, they will be redirected to the new file.


Prevent viewing of .htaccess file

Sometimes, if you have a directory containing files, but not an index file, then the server will display the entire contents of that directory. To prevent this from happening, include this:

[code:df171]IndexIgnore *[/code:df171]

To stop people from viewing the .htacess file in your site, include this line in the file:

[code:df171]<Files .htaccess>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>[/code:df171]

Preventing Directory Listing

Sometimes, if you have a directory containing files, but not an index file, then the server will display the entire contents of that directory. To prevent this from happening, include this:

[code:df171]IndexIgnore *[/code:df171]

The * is known as a wildcard and means all files. You could just block the gif and jpg files for example:

[code:df171]IndexIgnore *.gif *.jpg
[/code:df171]

(Original Source : http://usertools.plus.net/tutorials/id/5 )

You can also use a blank index.php file or an index.php with a redirection

[code:df171]<?php
header('Location: http://www.example.com/');
?>[/code:df171]

If you need more let me know.
Hope this helped.

[aowaow]

uh oh. looks like i will rent another host. since yahoo wont allow the file with Dot like .htaccess or .**** files.
have tried manipulate uploading without the Dot, and lately change it. But it can't.

I will continue search for more resources if any other way to "manipulate" this

[roScripts]

Yep...Yahoo is a good host but way to strict. They don't allow almost anything, I would recommend mediatemple, dreamhost or bluehost.

[LarcenIII]

I recommend using Godaddy or Network Solutions.
Melbourn IT even looked pretty good, but they weren't really on my time schedule!

[xjessie007]

Hi,

Yeah, there are many ways how you can accomplish this. In any case, find some other hosting provider, Yahoo is not very flexible if you want to do some special stuff. I go with Forpsi and Station, they are not bad.

In regards to preventing the access

A)
If you have access to your httpd.conf (server configuration) file, add the following to the <Directory> section. The IndexIgnore directive adds to the list of files to hide when listing a directory.

IndexIgnore *

This setting is global. If you want to disable listing for just some folders, then:

B)
If you can edit your .htaccess file (the one in the folder you want prevent from dir listing), insert the following:

Options -Indexes

This stops showing directory listings for URLs which map to the directory.

C)
You could also disable dir indexing completely. Find the following line in your httpd.conf and place a # in front of it.

LoadModule autoindex_module modules/mod_autoindex.so

This will disable directory listing completely for everyone and everywhere.

D)
The Allow,Deny relates to restricting access . Again, this can be either in your httpd.conf or in your .htaccess.

Here is a good page on IndexIgnore: IndexIgnore
See here if interested learning about Order Allow,Deny: Order Allow,Deny

Cheers. Let us know how it goes. What is your website? Just currious.