An administrator is configuring a web server to serve a directory of static files. They want to prevent users from browsing the directory listing. Which configuration is most appropriate?

Set the directory permissions to 755.

Use a robots.txt file to disallow search engines from indexing the directory.

Place an empty index.html file in the directory.

Disable directory listing (autoindex) in the web server configuration.

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