How do I protect a directory?

[masaus]

Please allow me to ask you a newbie's question.

I have an issue to protect a directory.

I made a directory which has a couple of pdf files, A.pdf, B.pdf and C.pdf. When I go to http://mydomain.com/directory, I don't want to see all the pdf files in the directory, like "Index of /directory".

But I would like to open A.pdf, B.pdf or C.pdf by clicking http://mydomain.com/A.pdf or B.pdf or C.pdf.

How do I do it? I don't want to use "password protect directories". I just want to do "access denied" when someone accesses the directory.

I barely remember, before Bluehost changed the cPanel, I could do that from the menu.:confused:

Thank you very much for your help.

[Basil]

.htaccess in public_html

Options -Indexes

[antonth]

thank you very much for this help needed this bad

[masaus]

Basil,

Thank you for the information. But I'm wondering what I should do in .htaccess in public_html.:confused: Should I write "Options -Indexes" in it?

Thank you again for your help.
masaus

[felgall]

If you have a home page (eg. index.html) set up in a given directory then you don't need to block the index because that page will be displayed instead of the index.

[micheall]

Yes, you could just create a blank text file called index.html, that way you don't turn off indexing for other directories etc that you might need access to. That's the simple method.

[Basil]

Masaus, yes. You would put "options -indexes" into a .htaccess file under the public_html directory.

[masaus]

Thank you all for your help.

I solved my problem.

masaus:o