Enabling or Disabling Directory Indexing

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Published Jul. 2, 2025

Enabling or Disabling Directory Indexing

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Starting In Liferay Portal 6.1 EE, there is a portal.property for enabling or disabling directory indexing for the site.

Resolution

To enable directory indexing, set the following property in the portal-ext.properties:

web.server.servlet.directory.indexing.enabled=true

(the property is set to false and directory indexing is disabled by default for security reasons).

Note: When this property is enabled, all document libraries are browsable to anyone that knows the URL. Permissions are still utilized but any guest-viewable document or folder is viewable by anyone.