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Disable the ArcGIS Portal Directory

The ArcGIS Portal Directory provides a browsable HTML-based representation of all your portal items, services, web maps, groups, and content. It also contains all the actions you can perform on your portal through REST. The ArcGIS Portal Directory can be a useful development tool; however, disable the ArcGIS Portal Directory for production systems when you don't want users browsing your list of items, finding your services in a web search, or making requests to your portal through HTML forms.

This is not a privacy setting. Disabling the Portal Directory does not prevent access to or the ability to discover items, services, web maps, groups, content, and their operations; it only removes the HTML pages for viewing the items and web maps and the list of supported operations for each of these. All items and web maps are still fully accessible in JSON format (f=json). Security restrictions on the items and web maps are still applicable.

To disable the directory, follow the steps below.

  1. Open the Portal Administrator Directory and sign in as an administrator of your organization. The URL is formatted https://webadaptorhost.domain.com/webadaptorname/portaladmin.
  2. Click Security > Config > Update Security Configuration.
  3. On the Update Security Configuration page, set the disableServicesDirectory property to true, for example, "disableServicesDirectory": true.
  4. Click Update Configuration.