How do you disable directory listing in Amazon CloudFront?

Vickie_ki

I want to disable directory listing in my Amazon CloudFront distribution, but I can't figure out how to do it. Can someone please help?

Margie781

There are a few ways to disable directory listing in Amazon CloudFront. The easiest way is to create an empty index.html file in the root directory of your website. When CloudFront requests a directory/folder that doesn't contain an index file, it will show a 403 Forbidden error.

You can also use a web.config file with an empty < Directory > section. This will also return a 403 error for any directory that doesn't contain an index file.

If you want to return a different error code (such as 404 Not Found), you can create a custom error page. To do this, create an error page with the desired error code and upload it to your website. Then, in the CloudFront console, go to the Error Pages tab and configure your error page.

For more information, see the following resources:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/distribution-web-values-specify.html#DownloadDistValuesErrorPages
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/custom-error-pages.html

earl_hudson

Directory Listing or Index allows an end-user to list all the objects within a particular directory without specifying that object names. To disable Directory Listing in Amazon Cloudfront, here are the steps you need to follow-

Log in to your AWS Console and select CloudFront from the services menu.
Select the Distribution for which you want to disable Directory Listing.
Under the Behaviors tab, select Default Root Object.
Enter 404.html in the Object Path field.
Click Save.

This will disable the Directory Listing for the given distribution. For more detailed instructions, refer to the official Amazon documentation for disabling Directory Listing in Amazon Cloudfront
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/DisablingDirectoryListing.html.