[TriLUG] Apache2 Strange Behavior

[Rick DeNatale]

On 4/21/06, Brian Blater (BBList) <bblist at ridetta.org> wrote:
> I have a LAMP server running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (Apache 2.0.54, MySQL 4.1.18 and PHP 5.1.2). This machine will eventually serv up several name based virtual hosts. I have this currently configured for a default site and three additional sites for testing.
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> Here is what's happening. If I browse to the default site (http://defaultsite) I get an "Access Forbidden!" error 403. I can however access the site by (http://defaultsite/index.html) or any other html or php file in the document root dir. I am also able to access the virtual sites without explicitly using index.html.
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> In the error_log file it only shows - [error] [client X.X.X.X] Directory index forbidden by rule: /srv/www/defaultsite/. I did a search for this and someone suggested turning on indexing by setting "Options Indexes". But this only allows me to view the files in the directory which is what I don't want and does not automatically serv up index.html. I made sure that httpd.conf contained the DirectoryIndex index.html setting and have gone through the config files multiple times, but I'm just not seeing anything out of the ordinary.
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> Anybody have any ideas what I'm missing here? I'm pulling my hair out on this one (it is Friday, not Monday correct?)

Look for the option DirectoryIndex somewhere in your configuration
files or .htaccess files.  This can be in the context of the host
configuration, a virtual host configuration, a directory
configuration, or .htaccess if AllowOverride Indexes is set.

This directive gives the list of urls which Apache will look for in
the case of a url ending with a /, the default is index.html but it
might be overridden in your case.

Options Indexes tells Apache ot generate the html index of a directory
in the case that it doesn't find one of the urls specified by
DirectoryIndex

HTH

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Rick DeNatale

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