----- Original Message ---- From: Sander Temme <sctemme@xxxxxxxxxx> To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Fri, 4 February, 2011 11:01:56 PM Subject: Re: permissions problem on my webserver On Feb 4, 2011, at 7:08 AM, 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." You must have removed that index.html, and the resultant overlay of the Options statements in your config is that Indexes are forbidden. Note that the default vhost on Ubuntu has a <Directory "/" > block, and the main server config doesn't. I have never heard of Ilias, but you'll find that http://localhost/ilias/ will give you better results. S. > > 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> You don't specify Options Indexes for <Directory "/var/www">, so you're working with whatever the server default is. > 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/ Options, or lack thereof which means you're working with whatever is the server default. > What should I do in this situation? What are you trying to achieve? The path to the Ilias installation is under the subdirectory, can you get there? Would you rather have that in the root dir? If you want to show content in the root dir, put content in there (you must have removed the default index.html). If you want to have Ilias in the root dir, unzip it there or make the ilias directory your root. S. -- Hi Sander thanks for your message I reached there you are correct. The correct configuration should be as follows <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost ServerName localhost DocumentRoot /var/www <Directory /> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory> <Directory /var/www/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Order allow,deny allow from all </Directory> <Directory /var/www/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny allow from all </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 do let me know why did this configuration work I copied it from an existing working configuration. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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