Redirect users from folder browsing

redirect website folders to home page

[galench]

I have an HTML web site with many folders. Each folder have many htm pages. I don`t want for some user browse my folders and see list of those pages.
It`s possibel do something to forbid preview all folders and subfolders? I can use redirect module in my cpanel, but it`s irrational - isn`t?

[encyclo]

You don't need to redirect - assuming your server is running Apache, just add the following to a root-level .htaccess file:

Options -Indexes

Or you can simply add a blank index.html file in each directory.

[galench]

I tryed to add "Options -Indexes"!
It`s working, but browser show HTTP 403 error!

It`s will be perfect, if it redirect to home page!
Is this possible to do in htaccess?

[craig1972]

Try this?

Options -Indexes
ErrorDocument 403 / 

I am not sure how efficient this is, but it works for me.

[wilderness]

or you may simply add a blank index.html page to the directory.

[galench]

Try this?
Options -Indexes
ErrorDocument 403 /
I am not sure how efficient this is, but it works for me.

Working, but unproperly!
If you go for example [example324982398.com...]

you will be redirected to frontpage (homepage), but all links on that page will be changed. Let you have page [example324982398.com...] it will be [example324982398.com...]

Why - don`t know!

or you may simply add a blank index.html page to the directory.

Also i must add meta redirection in each page - some work...

[wilderness]

I have an HTML web site with many folders. Each folder have many htm pages. I don`t want for some user browse my folders and see list of those pages.
It`s possibel do something to forbid preview all folders and subfolders?

or you may simply add a blank index.html page to the directory.

Also i must add meta redirection in each page - some work...

Not sure why you need any redirection (least of all meta-tag redirects) if your only goal is to prevent directory view of the files?

Do you have some other priorites that you've omitted?

[Mike521]

seems like he wants to block access to the folders, plus have a nice looking page show up instead. maybe a normal visitor could accidentally end up at one of those locations some day.

galench, do you have a custom error document that you already use? you could try setting it up to show that page. for example, similar to what craig said:

Options -Indexes
ErrorDocument 403 /your-error-document.html

then, on your-error-document.html, make sure all the images, stylesheets, and javascripts use absolute links instead of relative. like:

bad:
<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='mystylesheet.css'>

good:
<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='http://www.mysite.com/mystylesheet.css'>

also good:
<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='/mystylesheet.css'>

[g1smd]

it is very bad form to use a real page of your site as the error document, especially you root index page. Craft a custom error page for that purpose.

[craig1972]

Then try this:

Options -Indexes
ErrorDocument 403 / [R=301,L]

Please note that this is a kludge. You should do a proper page and then redirect from that page if you wish. I have an error.php in my root folder, and I do this:

Options -Indexes
ErrorDocument 404 /error.php?e=404 [L]
ErrorDocument 403 /error.php?e=403 [L]
ErrorDocument 500 /error.php?e=500 [L]

And then, from the error.php page, I give them the ability to search for content, or LINK to the front page. From a design point of view my images and CSS in the error page all link with a "/" in the beginning, e.g., "/images/site.css", so it is relative to the main root folder. This way all the images appear without problems.

Hope this helps.