recently i had to change my web hosting to a diffrent one for my wallpaper site. on the new hosting server, i noticed that when i didnt have an index.html file, it would display all my files within that directory. that was scary because anyone could see all my files.

i read an article but it said i had to make the changes on the apache configuration server. but i dont have acess to the server. so today i found a way to block all my directories from being index and showing all the files in that directory. for example. lets say i have a site like yours, and when you go to:

http://wallpaperama.com/test/

i will show this:

Index of /test

	Name	Last modified>Size	Description
	Parent Directory		-

so what you can do create a .htaccess file with the following:


now try to open the directory again and you will see something like this:



then upload to your site and after that, it will stop showing your files. this is a good security if your hosting company doesnt have good security in their apache configuration. i hope i have showed you how to stop directory index on your site. this will prevent people from indexing and seeing all your files. after that you will see a message:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /test/ on this server.