n00b webhosting question

[WhiteKnight]

How do I make it so that individual files in a directory on my webpage are viewable but the directory listing is not visible. i.e. Say I have a directory ...\pics and I have a bunch of image files in there. I want people to be able to view the pictures if they are linked directly, but not the full directory listing by just going to ...\pics. I'm sure that this is a very simple permissions setting, but I can't seem to get it to work when I play around with it. Either everything is visible or nothing is.

 

[Tetsuo]

.htaaccess

 

[BillGates]

just make an index.html page in that directory and don't put anything in it. it will hide the directory structure and take no work.

 

[WhiteKnight]

Thanks, I'll try that.

 

[WhiteKnight]

Just out of curiosity, what would be the "real" way to do it? What do I do with .htaaccess?

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

turn off browse rights to the folder but leave read on?

 

[Tetsuo]

Originally posted by: WhiteKnight
Just out of curiosity, what would be the "real" way to do it? What do I do with .htaaccess?

Too lazy to type

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