What do you do with empty directories?
 

What I mean is - I have some paths that are like this:

my-site.com/folder/content.html

But the /folder/ has no content. I know that I can add an index.html file there but is there a way redirect users away from looking in an empty folder?

I guess .301 htaccess can do that as can a javascript redirect - but is there a third way? Just wondering what you guys would do.....

If you don't want to have to create an index file in each directory then htaccess is really your best (and perhaps only) option.

You can either set a redirect/rewrite to a page that does exist (which, from your question, I assume you know how to do already) or you can specify your default index page so that users can still visit /folder/ and they will see your content.html page.

Setting the default index page to be your contents.html file would look something like this:

Thanks - appreciate your help. I was just curious to see what other people do