prevent root directory access publicly for my domain

Question

Actually i have a website www.domain.com

when i tried to inspect element and try to access www.domain.com/css/ then it showed all the files in the directory

Structure

/css/
/images/
/include/
/js/
index.html
contact.html
sitemap.xml
style.css
robot.txt
.htaccess

i want css,images,include,js folder to be protected means if anyone try to access www.domain.com/images/ then he should be redirected to www.domain.com/index.html rest index.html,contact.html,sitemap,robot.txt should be publicly accessible and www.domain.com/images/abcd.jpg can be publicly accessible but www.domain.com/images/ should not be publicly accessible.

can anyone tell me how to do that?

put a blank `index.html` file in all folders. If you want to do that by htaccess then put `Options -Indexes `. — urfusion, Dec 12 '17 at 08:11
Possible duplicate of [How do I disable directory browsing?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2530372/how-do-i-disable-directory-browsing) — madalinivascu, Dec 12 '17 at 08:21

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 12 '17 at 08:16

You can disable directory listing with this option in your server config or in .htaccess:

Options -Indexes

Details here: https://wiki.apache.org/httpd/DirectoryListings

To redirect the user to your homepage, use a rewrite rule or put a redirect in your HTTP 403/404 error page.

prevent root directory access publicly for my domain

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