Apache Options -Indexes configuration not working

Question

I need to stop directory listing of images directory on a website. I'm configuring cookieless domain for images and javascripts on a site. I have done the CNAME configuration and added below virtual hosts configuration in httpd.conf file. But, if i access this cookieless domain directly, its listing the whole directory content. how to solve this problem?

<VirtualHost ipaddr:80>
    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    ServerName imgs.site.com
    ServerAlias www.imgs.site.com
    DocumentRoot /usr/tomcat/webapps/site/images

    <Directory /usr/tomcat/webapps/site/images>
       Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks
       AllowOverride none
    </Directory>

    CustomLog logs/imgs.site.com_access_log "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-agent}i\""
    ErrorLog logs/imgs.site.com_error_log 
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost ipaddr:80>
    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    ServerName imgs.site.com
    ServerAlias www.imgs.site.com imgs.site.net
    DocumentRoot /usr/tomcat/webapps/site/images

    <Directory /usr/tomcat/webapps/site/images>
       Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks
       AllowOverride none
    </Directory>

    CustomLog logs/imgs.site.com_access_log "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-agent}i\""
    ErrorLog logs/imgs.site.com_error_log
</VirtualHost>

Answer 1

A quick workaround is to put an index.html file into the directory, with arbitrary content. Indexing will display the contents of this file instead of the directory listing.

Answer 2

I think that path in Directory directive is appended to DocumentRoot, so you actually ordering Apache not to index /usr/tomcat/webapps/site/images/usr/tomcat/webapps/site/images. Try the following configuration instead:

DocumentRoot /usr/tomcat/webapps/site

<Directory ~ "/.*/">
    Options -Indexes
</Directory>

This should disable directory indexing in all folders under /usr/tomcat/webapps/site, eg. /usr/tomcat/webapps/site/images/, /usr/tomcat/webapps/site/fubar/ and so on.