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I have following two lines in .htaccess file and I just want to know what do they do.

Options +FollowSymLinks
Options +Indexes
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I managed to find the answers to both options by using my mouse's right click button. Seriously, do the googling yourself, you don't need other people doing it. –  N.B. Oct 19 '12 at 11:48
You have searched a lot??? Come on... –  Thorsten Dittmar Oct 19 '12 at 11:49
You probably didn't search that much. ;) –  Vache Oct 19 '12 at 11:49
A little comment on the two people so far who voted to close the question: While I agree that it is off topic, I don't see why it should be closed as "not a real question". Though worded a bit differently, still you can easily understand "I want to know what ... does" as a question. However, I'd vote for a close reason "The OP didn't spend two seconds on finding an answer on his own before spamming SO with a question he could have answered himself with a simple google search..." –  Thorsten Dittmar Oct 19 '12 at 12:09
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closed as not a real question by N.B., Joachim Sauer, Hristo Iliev, R0MANARMY, Kate Gregory Oct 19 '12 at 18:48


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FollowSymLinks means if a dir is a symbol link, follow the link
Indexes means a dir can be show as list if no index page.

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+FollowSymLinks makes Apache follow system symbolic links (shortcuts, if you would) in your file system.

+Indexes allows access to open folders within your file system, Eg, if you forgot to put an index.{ext_here} file down within a directory, +Indexes would allow list that directory's contents to the user.

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