Okay, this is due to the permission problem look at your user /group setting in apache httpd.conf, and then go to the respective directory and change those ownership according to that like # chown user.group <directory name> (do it as a sudo user) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karl@cometa" <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 6:23 PM Subject: [users@httpd] RE: index files in subdirectories > > My directory index is already set to: > > DirectoryIndex index.cgi index.php index.html index.html.var > > but I'm still getting this problem. > > > The messages I get are: > > Forbidden > You don't have permission to access /cometawiki/ on this server. > > Forbidden > You don't have permission to access /cometazilla/ on this server. > > > My Document root directory has index.php in it and this does automatically > load when I navigate to the directory. > cometawiki and cometazilla are subdirectories of the DocumentRoot directory > and have index.php and index.cgi in them respectively. > > If I put the links in the main index file as ./cometawiki/index.php and > ./cometawiki/index.cgi they load if I put them as ./cometawiki/ and > ./cometazilla/ it doesn't load them, it gives the forbidden message above. > > > The error log says: > > [Wed Jul 12 13:48:49 2006] [error] [client <snip>] attempt to invoke > directory as script: D:/Websites/gateway/cometawiki/, referer: > http://<snip>/ > > I've snipped out the ip and url so I don't get loads of trash from > webcrawlers :P > > gateway is my DocumentRoot directory where initial index.php is stored > -- > View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/index-files-in-subdirectories-tf1930381.html#a5288054 > Sent from the Apache HTTP Server - Users forum at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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