I've just started using Piwik on a cloud server, and it appears that the installation did not create the needed .htaccess files. As a result, all directories are indexable.

The public folder has all the necessary permissions where my user (owner) and the apache user (group) can write.

Is there any way I can have these files generated, and why did they not generate in the first place? Better yet, why are these files not included by default anyway? I'm sure a simple .htaccess in the root would have sufficed, instead of one for each directory (I think that's what the generator does?)...

Edit: I also think the security module should warn users when these files do not exist.

Update: I have now generated these files by calling the relevant method from index.php (deleted now as this is a once-off thing).

Piwik\Plugins\Installation\ServerFilesGenerator::createHtAccessFiles();

I also noted from a GH search that this method is only called when running updates, but never at install-time. Is this an oversight?