Enabling and disabling the file listing

It's generally not advisable to enable directory listing in your application. By default directory listing will be disabled on JBoss.

If it is enabled, go to your JBoss installation folder.

How to do it...

The following steps will help to disable and enable file listing in the application server:

1. Browse to the path \server\default\deployers\jbossweb.deployer.
2. Open web.xml in the WEB-INF folder.
3. Set the listing to false.

   <servlet>
         <servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
         <servlet-class>org.apache.catalina.servlets.DefaultServlet</servlet-class>
         <init-param>
            <param-name>debug</param-name>
            <param-value>0</param-value>
         </init-param>
         <init-param>
            <param-name>listings</param-name>
            <param-value>false</param-value>
         </init-param>
         <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
      </servlet>

See also

• The Spring Security with Struts2 recipe