Web Hosting : Best way to protect Web Folder Access?

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This web hosting thread started by thefandango on 13 September 2008

This may be a basic question so apologies. I have had a website developed a while back and have today noticed during some final work that I can access all folders on the site. For example if I type in www.mysite.com/xinha I can see all the xinha configuration files. It is the same for my javascript folder etc.

Obviously this is not good!

If I merely place an index.html into each folder while that be sufficient to block access? Or do I need to use htaccess? If so, what is the basic htaccess wording I would need to stop outside access?

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