How to hide my directories and files in tomcat?

[Guos Hu]

When I type "localhost:8080/jsp" in the IE URL address, the dirctories and files within the jsp directory will be displayed. How to provent the directories and files from displaying in the IE?
Thanks!

[Thomas Paul]

Add an index.html file to the directory.

[Mike Curwen]

Or...

  <!-- ================== Built In Servlet Definitions ==================== -->

  <!-- The default servlet for all web applications, that serves static     -->
  <!-- resources.  It processes all requests that are not mapped to other   -->
  <!-- servlets with servlet mappings (defined either here or in your own   -->
  <!-- web.xml file.  This servlet supports the following initialization    -->
  <!-- parameters (default values are in square brackets):                  -->
  SNIP
  <!--   listings            Should directory listings be produced if there -->
  <!--                       is no welcome file in this directory?  [true]  -->
  SNIP
  <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>true</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
  </servlet>

Turn that 'true' into a 'false', and you should disabled directory browsing. (this is from CATALINA_HOME/conf/web.xml)