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How to disable directory listing litespeed?

Usually, misconfigured or default configuration on web servers may lead to a number of issues that could aid hackers in their attacks.

One common web server issue is directory listing.

Many leave it enabled by mistake, thus creating an information leak issue.

Because they allow everyone to see all the files and directories on a website.

What is directory listing?

Directory listing is a web server feature that, when enabled, lists the content of a directory with no index file.

The directory listing feature generates an output similar to the dir or ls command that is run on an operating system.

Directory listing issues are the type of issues that an SSL certificate won’t protect you from.

However, the good news is that these types of issues can easily identifwith an automated web vulnerability scanner.

What information will leak via directory listing and what is the risk?

Let’s assume that a backup copy of the file config.php, in which the credentials for a database connection are kept in which has directory listing enable.

If the hacker finds the secret folder by crawling or fuzzing, when he tries to access it directly he can see and download the backup files.

Now the hacker has the connection details to the web application’s database.

Allowing them to possibly damage the database or the web application thanks to these credentials.

Disabling directory listing on LiteSpeed

LiteSpeed web server you can disable directory listing at both web server and website level.

To disable directory listing at the server level, you can update the httpd_config.xml file.

On the other hand, you can also do it by using LiteSpeed server control panel.

If you want to disable directory listing at the server level, add the following line to the httpd_config.xml file:

<autoIndex>0</autoIndex>

vhconf.xml:

If you want to enable or disable the directory listing at website level you need to follow the /VIRTUAL_HOST_ADI/conf/vhconf.xml path.

Then, make the relevant definitions for the file you access.

Disabling directory listing on Lighttpd

Directory listing is disable by default on a Lighttpd web server.

However, it is possible to disable directory listing from the dirlisting.conf file if it was enable because of a configuration changes.

The configuration file of the mod_dirlisting is /etc/lighttpd/conf.d/dirlisting.conf.

To disable directory listing on the server, you must replace the related line with the following:

dir-listing.activate = “disable”

If you want to enable directory listing for a particular directory, you must make the following changes:

$HTTP[“url”] =~ “^/download($|/)” {  dir-listing.activate = “enable”  }

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Conclusion

To sum up, our Support Engineers demonstrated how to disable directory listing litespeed.