[KLUG Members] Apache Forbidden error accessing a directory

[Wesley Leonard]

I have encountered this error too... and it's quite confounding!!!

Here are some things to check:

Do you have a valid index file in the directory?
Is this index file readable?
If you don't have an index file, do you have directory browsing turned
on? (Generally not safe...)

You can try restarting apache or maybe clearing your browser cache.

Good luck!

On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 08:46, Patrick Mc Govern wrote:
> I am running Mandrake 8.2 on my home PC.  I have several php applications 
> like xoops and phpbb in my document root (/var/www/html) that I can access 
> just fine with a browser.  
> 
> The problem is that I created a directory named "HP" and I get the following 
> error when I open this directory from a browser (http://localhost/HP):
> 
> Forbidden You don't have permission to access /HP/ on this server.
> 
> It has the unix directory permissions set to 755, just like the other 
> directories.  I tried an .htaccess file within the HP directory but I get a 
> configuration error, probably due to incorrect syntax.
> 
> I have not seen this issue on previous versions of Mandrake.  What's the best 
> way to fix this access problem?
> 
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