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htaccess index off - how to turn the automatic directory listing off.

When you dont have an index file inside a directory, depending on your hosts setup, the server may show an automatic directory listing of all the files in that directory. This has security implications, as there may be files there that you don;t wish people to know about.

So you either have a blank index.html or index.php file in that directory, or add the following to your .htaccess file:

Options -Indexes

If you have other .htaccess files in inner directories, you will need to add this to each htaccess file.