----- "James Godrej" <jamesgodrej@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? See: http://onlamp.com/pub/a/apache/2004/04/22/apacheckbk.html For all cases that cause a "forbidden" error in the frontend. i -- Igor GaliÄ Tel: +43 (0) 664 886 22 883 Mail: i.galic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: http://brainsware.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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