I just installed lamp on Ubuntu 10.04. So all files are default and when I check http://localhost I see the index page of Ubuntu which says It works!! So upto here the installation was very smooth. Now comes the problem I download a lms known as ilias from web and put it in /var/www extract it so it is some thing now /var/www/ /var/www/ilias/ /var/www/ilias/rest/of/the/files permissions root@james:/var/www# ls -l total 4 drwxr-xr-x 15 www-data www-data 4096 2010-06-14 22:05 ilias when I go to a browser then rather than seeing the index page what I see is the directory starts getting downloaded.(Now I see a permissions denied error) "You don't have permission to access / on this server." Following is my vhost <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost DocumentRoot /var/www ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log LogLevel warn CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined </VirtualHost> and following line I see in log 192.168.43.1 - - [04/Feb/2011:20:31:08 +0530] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 403 261 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.12" and in error.log [Fri Feb 04 20:30:23 2011] [error] [client 192.168.43.1] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /var/www/ [Fri Feb 04 20:31:08 2011] [error] [client 192.168.43.1] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /var/www/ What should I do in this situation? --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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