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  • I guess it's a support thing and they do it to be able to tell users "We said to only do it if you know what you are doing" when they complain that their server is "broken" after doing this without knowing what it implicates. In reality, if you indeed know what you are doing, go forward, nothing bad will happen that you shouldn't expect.
    – Sven
    Commented May 30, 2016 at 4:32
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    I agree that directory browsing is really bad and I find it really strange that this is still a default in Apache (or Ubuntu) in 2016. I guess some people cannot let go... Commented Oct 16, 2016 at 0:56