Webmaster in a Nutshell, Third Edition

Name

IndexIgnore

Synopsis

                     IndexIgnore 
                     filename 
                     ...

[server config, within <VirtualHost> or <Directory>, or .htaccess]

Tells the server to ignore (hide) certain files when automatically building a directory index on the fly. The files are specified as full server paths, and you can use the wildcards * and ? with their usual meanings. Thus, to ignore all hidden files (i.e., files whose names begin with a period) at every level, you could use the following setting:

IndexIgnore */.?*

Any number of IndexIgnore directives may be included.