Hide parent directory /www

Question

I am uploading my project containing folders with all the scripts, PHP, CSS etc, and the index.html

Let's say the URL looks like this www.mydomain.com/project/web/index.html

Inside the parent folder "project", all my files are visible and easily accessible to download (which they shouldn't) if they simply enter www.mydomain.com/project/

Question: Is there any way to HIDE all the parent folders and documents and only make my /index.html accessible?

My server is not an Apache so I can not setup an .htaccess file and build rules to hide/redirect and return a 404 Error page.

Answer 1

You could set up a index.html in your projects folder or any other folder that you don't want them to have access.

Then in those index.html pages you can add redirects to push the user to your true homepage. You would place this code in the head of that index.html

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1; url=www.mydomain.com/project/web/">
        <script type="text/javascript">
            window.location.href = "www.mydomain.com/project/web/"
        </script>

I still think the best way is to use a .htaccess. But if you have no other choice this will work for folder based access.

This would not prevent people from accessing the file directly such as www.mydomain.com/project/file.txt

Answer 2

Actually, your server is Apache.

This is from their documentation:

What is the difference between the old and new webservers? The operating system on all new webservers are running Debian 8 Jessie, up from Debian 7 Wheezy.

Apache is upgraded from Apache 2.2 to Apache 2.4. If you are running your own .htaccess-file (especially accesscontrol) on your webhotel, this may need to be upgraded. Check Apache-documentation for more information.

We are now using uWSGI to run PHP, instead of suPHP (mod_suphp).

Link to documentation: FAQ

Link to rewrite_mod for Apache 2.4 Apache 2.4

Answer 3

You can try my idea.

1. Create an index.html or index.php file inside of a folder you dont want the user to access, for example, the project folder; so when a user attempts to visit www.mydomain.com/project and see the content, the index.html will be showed instead. OR
2. Create a condition there which redirect the user to index.html using php or JavaScript.