I have a 3rd party client who did a PCI scan on their site. The report returned this:
web server autoindex enabled
What is this and is it safe to disable it? Does anyone know the safest way to disable it, and how I can check it has been disabled?
I have a 3rd party client who did a PCI scan on their site. The report returned this:
web server autoindex enabled
What is this and is it safe to disable it? Does anyone know the safest way to disable it, and how I can check it has been disabled?
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autoindex generates directory indexes, automatically, similar to the Unix
lscommand or the Win32dirshell command. From:http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_autoindex.html
You'd comment out the line in your
conf/http.confthat referencesmod_autoindex, and restart/reload the service.The only reason you'd want this is if you want people browsing your web directories (eg, stripping off a resource, and navigating to the parent dir).