What does "Directory Index forbidden by rule" mean?
What could the following line mean?
[Mon Feb 21 20:52:13 2011] [error] [client 66.249.71.150]
Directory index forbidden by rule: /var/www/vhosts/website.com/httpdocs/
I have no index.php in the root, since my index is home.php, website root file is defined by .htaccess rules:
My .htaccess file looks like this:
DirectoryIndex index.php /index.php
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^website.com$
RewriteRule ^$ en/home [R=301,L]
...
Thanks very much!
update1:
I dont have access to the virtual host config files, im on shared hosting , so only .htacces in my /httpdocs/ thats all I have. What should I do? Should I jus disable DirectoryIndex (I dont use that anyways and the site works fine!) How can I check wether I have directory index or not?
update2:
- when testing in browser, all seem to work fine, fast and nicely!
- in log however, i see this:
[Sun Feb 27 02:18:56 2011] [error] [client 66.249.71.81] File does not exist: /var/www/vhosts/website.org/httpdocs/index
Unlike the first error at the top of this page, this seems a regular 404 (my 404 error document is my home page, so error pages show the home)
When I type in 'website.org' the htaccess rule does goed job in redirecting to the default page website.org/en/home and when I type 'websie.org/index' it redirects to website.org/en/home so it all seems to work fine but i dons know what the two error means "Directory index forbidden by rule..."
Clues? Thanks!
Answer
Check your entries and make sure that your site's virtual host DocumentRoot is listed there, otherwise apache won't be able to get at it.