.htaccess to prevent navigation

Question

I have a Debian server and the directory to put projects in apache is the traditional /var/www/html, I’m trying to block browsing directories and sub-directories through the browser with . htaccess but I’m not getting it right.

The . htaccess code is in the html folder with permission 644 www-data user:

<Directory /var/www/html>
    AllowOverride All
    Options -Indexes
</Directory>

Answer 1

Try this:

<Location /my_folder/>
    Order Deny,Allow
    Deny from all
</Location>

Or this (depends on the server version)

<directory /my_folder/>
    Order Deny,Allow
    Deny from all
</Location>

Apache configuration

Edit the apache configuration file, usually at /etc/apache2.conf look up the list of available directories, a block similar to this (copied from a debian google cloud virtural machine):

<Directory />
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Require all denied
</Directory>

<Directory /usr/share>
        AllowOverride None
        Require all granted
</Directory>

<Directory /var/www/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Require all granted
</Directory>

Amend the Directive AllowOverride for:

 AllowOverride All