How to disable directory browsing in WAMP
June 3, 2015 / by Marco / Categories : TechnologyIf you’re using WAMP and are browsing a folder without an index.php or index.html file, the WAMP server will display all the files contained in that folder. Here’s an example:
This can become a security risk as the visitor is able to browse and download all the files. In order to disable this you need to edit the httpd.conf file which can be found here: C:\wamp\bing\apache\apache[version]\conf\httpd.conf
Look for the line
Options -Indexes
All you need to do is then add the # infront of the line so it looks like this:
Options -Indexes
Restart WAMP by clicking on the WAMP icon and selecting restart all.
This will then disable the directory as shown below:
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