hello, how do i go about protecting a directories contents without using a .htaccess? Basically what is happening is this: when I go to mydomain.com/images i see links to all the images. Now I can put a blank index.html file in the directory and that fixes the problem for the moment, but what if I have 100 directories. I dont want to have to make 100 index.htmls. IM sure there must be a way around this. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!:D

The easiest way is with .htaccess. Just stick one at the bottom of the tree with Options -Indexes
Either that or name every file with a leading . so that they are all hidden.........

what do you mean at the end of the tree? also if anyone else has any ideas please let me know. the user really doesnt want to have to create a .htaccess for each directory (there are a lot of them). thanks in advance!!

If you have a directory named dirmain with 2000 directories named dir1 to dir2000 then you stick a .htaccess file in dirmain and it affects everything below it in the tree, namely dir1-dir2000
So ONE FILE does it all.

I stick the file in the site folder so it affects the main site and all user sites as well.

thanks wiz:)