Index Manager Question - Cpanel

[bgolder]

Hi - in the Cpanel index manager, it the server writing those settings to a .htaccess file, or are these settings stored somewhere that I can't edit manually?

 

If I have an .htaccess file at the root of public_html that has this in it:

 

Options All -Indexes

DirectoryIndex index.php index.htm index.html

 

Doesn't that restrict directory listings? And if I have that, then I can just turn all the Index Manager settings off...?

 

Thanks,

 

Bryan

[bgolder]

Ok - I figured out the above. But I have a different htaccess question.

 

Anybody know what this is doing in my htaccess file? (I changed domain and username to make it generic for this public post).

 

AuthName www.domain.com

AuthUserFile /home/username/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd

AuthGroupFile /home/username/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp

 

Thanks!

 

-Bryan

[TCH-Dick]

Those are created by the FrontPage extensions. If you are not using FrontPage then you can unistall them via cPanel. If you do that make a copy of your htaccess so you can replace anything you created in htaccess

 

Take a look for what those lines are for.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_auth.html#authuserfile

Edited December 11, 2004 by TCH-Dick

[bgolder]

Yikes, I just read the uninstall warning...

 

I don't recall ever installing the Front Page extensions? Would these have been installed related to phpbb or osCommerce installs that I did?

 

I'm running osCommerce (TCH install and my own manual custom install), phpBB (TCH install) my manual install of phpNuke, and...that's it. Do I need Front page extensions?

 

Is that right that I have to backup every single .htaccess file on my site before uninstalling?

[TCH-Andy]

If you don't use FrontPage to generate part of your site, you will be fine. The FrontPage extensions are installed by default. By the sound of your site, you don't need the FP extensions.

 

 

You need to backup every .htaccess that has any changes in it - I would guess in your case, that is only the one in the public_html directory, but I would quickly check the others before uninstalling the extensions.

[bgolder]

Done!

 

So what is Front Page for anyway? Do I need something special on my end to use it?

 

-Bryan

[TCH-Andy]

Bryan,

 

FrontPage is a html / web page design program by Micro$oft - I'm not a great fan of it personally