----- Original Message ---- From: Joost de Heer <joost@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Fri, 4 February, 2011 8:47:44 PM Subject: Re: permissions problem on my webserver On Fri, February 4, 2011 16:08, James Godrej wrote: > 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." > What should I do in this situation? Add the proper DirectoryIndex (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_dir.html#directoryindex). Joost --------------------------------------------------------------------- Yes this came to my mind also so I did the new vhost configuration as <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost DocumentRoot /var/www <Directory /var/www> DirectoryIndex index.html index.php Options Indexes FollowSymLinks </Directory> ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit, # alert, emerg. LogLevel warn CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined </VirtualHost> but this still did not helped. I checked this link also http://onlamp.com/pub/a/apache/2004/04/22/apacheckbk.html I tried in vhost above Options +Indexes FollowSymLinks but this also did not helped me much. Any more suggestions? --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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