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[fread]

I am building a website and I have everything set up and running on my local computer. I have all of the site contents in one directory, and I put all the subfolders and files inside that director. I realize while browsing the site I can capture the url of my images and other resources and then navigate via the browser to the folder containing that resource; which exposes all other resources in that directory( which can also be done by viewing the source code an looking at the directory paths). For example if I click on a image I can get the image location, paste the location in the url, remove the image name from the url - I can see the directory contents. All of the code is done by hand thus far. I was wondering if there is a way to block viewers from viewing directory contents in this manner.

[Orjan]

A easy trick is to put an empty index.html in each directory so that shows instead of the directory listing. Another way is to give a directory listing disallowance in the settings in a .htaccess file (if using apache) or similar way

[fread]

Putting the empty html file works. The apache docs are a bit much for a beginner like myself to grasp all at once, so I'm pretty much picking up bits and pieces here and there. I haven't done any type of server configuration as yet; working with the default settings.
Thank you!