How to disable directory listing to /icons/ directory on Debian Lenny Linux

Saturday, 19th June 2010

I’ve recently configured a new server running Debian Lenny Linux. It really irritated methat by default an Alias existed to the /icons/ directory.
It took me a while to get through the configured Virtualhosts in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ , the /etc/apache2/apache2.conf and check among the enabled Apache modueles existing in /etc/apache2/mods-avaiable/

I finally got that the Alias to the directory was because of a configuration directives in /etc/apache2/mods-available/alias.conf

To disable the Alias you’ll have to:

debian-server:~# vim /etc/apache2/mods-available/alias.conf

Then Change in the /etc/apache2/mods-available/alias.conf : <Directory "/usr/share/apache2/icons">
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

Allow from all to to Deny from all in order to forbid access to the /icons/ directory.
If you want to completely wipe out the Alias comment out the line:

Alias /icons/ "/usr/share/apache2/icons/"

Now restart Apache and the access to the /icons directory enabled by default on Debian would be no more 🙂
debian-server:~# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Cheers 🙂

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5 Responses to “How to disable directory listing to /icons/ directory on Debian Lenny Linux”

  1. 347m3 says:
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    thanx, you saved my time

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  2. endyk says:
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    thx a lot – thx 🙂

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  3. Directorio de Yopal says:
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  4. Directorio de Yopal says:
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  5. bl4sphemy says:
    Firefox 33.0 Firefox 33.0 Ubuntu x64 Ubuntu x64
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    Couldn’t you just change Indexes >> -Indexes

    That will disable browsing of the directory.

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