403 error because I do not have an index.html file in directory

[jimoblak]

I am running Apache 2 on WinXP. I want to show the contents of a directory within the htdoc root (

http://localhost/somedirectory/).

I did not include an index.html file so that all files would display as a list. Unfortunately, I am getting a 403 error: You don't have permission to access /somedirectory/ on this server.

Previous Apache distributions seemed to default to showing these contents.

I scanned the httpd.conf file but could not find where it allowed or prevented directory browsing.

Can someone give me a clue where to tweak this to allow directory browsing?



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[Wullie]

Hi mate,

Find the appropriate directory container in the httpd.conf and either add Indexes or All.

Options All

or

Options Indexes


Hope this helps


Wullie

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[jimoblak]

Thanks for the tip but it turned out that I forgot to define <Directory &quot;C:/WebDocs&quot;> the same as the DocumentRoot &quot;C:/WebDocs&quot; - - which had made everything wacky.

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