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1. thelittlestgiant
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I completed moving files as required to have my wordpress blog in my root directory. (note; for some odd reason I used "wp" as the main directory name, instead of "wordpress"

   But, now if you type http://www.mysite.com/wp, the directory opens up with all of the files and subdirectories listed and available for right-click "save as" style downloads.

   This doesn't look kosher or secure...

   Any suggestions... the "wp" directory is set for CHMOD 755

   Thanks

2. Chris_K
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Configure the web server to properly recognize index.php as a default file (and turn off directory browsing for pete's sake!)

3. thelittlestgiant
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   gracias :)

4. thelittlestgiant
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   The learning never ceases...

   I just learned(for anyone out there w/ apache webserver...) that to turn off the directory browsing you can insert "Options -Indexes" (without quotes) into your .htaccess file

5. Otto
   Tech Ninja
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Yes. I'm surprised that more hosts don't make this the default setting. But for those that don't, Options -Indexes at the top of the .htaccess works too.

   Also, for sites that don't specify index.php as a default page, you can add this to the .htaccess:
   DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm

   That just specifies what pages it will look for, in order of priority. So your index.php will take precedence. :)

   Another useful one I did not know until recently... Some hosts support both PHP4 and PHP5, but require PHP5 files to have a PHP5 extension. If you want to run WordPress under PHP5 this way, then this trick in the .htaccess will let you do it:
   

   AddHandler x-httpd-php5 .php
   AddHandler x-httpd-php .php4

   GoDaddy, BTW, is one of these types of hosts.

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