apache httpd.conf error on error_log file

[Tammy Liang]

I keep getting the error message in error_log file, after I installed httpd-20.40-8 rpm on RH 8.0.

Mon Aug 09 13:34:52 2004] [error] [client 10.102.51.200] Directory index forbidden by rule: /var/www/html/

Thanks for any help...

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

It would appear the client 10.102.51.200 is trying to access a page/directory that has improper permissions or is forbidden by httpd.conf

To check syntax

httpd -t

You may have a syntax error. This is pretty easy to find and fix.

You might also have a rules conflict and that will be a little more difficult to ferret out.

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[Tammy Liang]

Steve, I run httpd -t and get "Syntax OK".
I think there may be conflict in httpd.conf file, andy suggestion what I should look for?

Thanks.

[Stuart Browne]

It would be my guess that you don't have an 'index.html' or any other of the files listed in your 'DirectoryIndex' configuration option, and you've got 'Options' stating that you can't get an index of that directory (no 'Indexes' in the Options for '/var/www/html').

[Steven E. Protter]

I'm with Stuart on that.

The type of acceptable index files are defined in httpd.conf

If they files do exist, make sure they are world readable.

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[Tammy Liang]

Thanks all. I install new version of apache and it runs w/o problem. Instead of try to find the conflict in httpd.conf file.