Index Of View.shtml

When you see Index of /view.shtml, you are looking at directory listing (also called directory indexing). This occurs when:

Instead of returning a 403 Forbidden error, the server kindly generates an HTML list of all files inside that directory. For example:

Index of /view.shtml
[PARENTDIR] Parent Directory
[ ] config.inc
[ ] passwords.txt
[ ] view.shtml
[ ] logs/

If you see this, it means the server believes /view.shtml is a directory, not a file.

Index of /view.shtml
Parent Directory
Name                    Last modified       Size
view.shtml              2025-03-12 14:22     4.2K

ℹ️ If you see this in a browser, directory indexing is enabled, and view.shtml is a file in that folder. index of view.shtml

In your server block, set the autoindex directive to off:

location / 
    autoindex off;

To specifically block access to view.shtml raw files:

location ~ \.shtml$ 
    internal;

To avoid exposing index of view.shtml vulnerabilities: When you see Index of /view

If a subdirectory called logs/ exists, the attacker can download access logs, error logs, or even admin action logs. These logs may contain: