Thanks, Nick, for the suggestion. I did that. And callers still get the terrible "Forbidden - you don't have permissions to access /(file)" I have doublechecked the permissions, all the way from the root to the domain, as well as all the directories. As overkill, I set directories drwxrwxrwx and files -rwxr-xr-x all the way to the end files mentioned on the error reports. Still no luck. What should I do? Any help would be much appreciated. There must be others who have this combination of .html files and plain ascii files. All my plain ascii files are now grouped under a single directory (called "bbs") on the same level with the primary .html files. If anyone else has a similar mixture please email me privately at bengard@xxxxxxxxx for a detailed discussion of permissions. You can tell by the fact that this was once a BBS that I have been doing it a while. But Apache is all new to me. Please help. Ben On 10/25/05, Nick Kew <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ben Gardiner wrote: > > The Apache error_log tells me, on many lines, > > "Directory index forbidden by rule." > > That's just Options +indexes you need. Nothing to do with > "plain ASCII" (directory indexes are HTML and normally in > the default charset of the server). > > -- > Nick Kew > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > -- From: Ben Gardiner Return address: bengard@xxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx