Enabling open directory browsing on your web hosting is dangerous and is a website security risk. You don’t want website visitor to view all your files and directory located in your web hosting. When a web directory doesn’t have a default page, either index or default hmtl or php page, it will shows open directory and list all files on your website. Anyone can browse your files and directory and download your data files, including image, video, zip, txt etc.
By default, your ipage hosting account is already disable the directory browing feature, and prevent anyone from browing your files and directory. However, you can choose to enable them if you really understand what you are doing. To enable directory browing, you can get to ipage control panel and under .htaccess you will find the open directory browing feature, click to enable the directory browing.
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“Allows you to control access to the directories of your website. By default, directories require an index file (index.html is recommended) to be present in a directory. With this tool, you can choose to display the contents of a directory if no default page is specified.“
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