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It was a permission error (!). Thanks for the reminder :)
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It was a permission error (!). Thanks for the reminder :)

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I setup a website on a server (Fedora release 7; &nbsp;Apache/2.2.8). I can access all of the pages on the site, however, when I run a script that writes a new html page, the script runs endlessly (i.e. browser says &quot;waiting for mysite.com...&quot; and I see this entry in the log file:<br />
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[Tue Apr 27 09:51:51 2010] [error] [client 10.5.96.9] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /var/www/html/sites/mysite<wbr />/trunk/fil<wbr />es/<br />
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I searched experts-exchange and have tried the following recommendations in other posts:<br />
* Disabled SELinux<br />
* Confirmed there are no .htaccess files in /mysite/<br />
* I am using this in my http.conf file: Options +Includes +FollowSymlinks +Indexes<br />
* I restarted Apache<br />
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...with no luck.<br />
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FYI: this is working on a development server with the exact same php.ini and http.conf files.<br />
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Any ideas?<br />

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I setup a website on a server (Fedora release 7;  Apache/2.2.8). I can access all of the pages on the site, however, when I run a script that writes a new html page, the script runs endlessly (i.e. browser says "waiting for mysite.com..." and I see this entry in the log file:

[Tue Apr 27 09:51:51 2010] [error] [client 10.5.96.9] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /var/www/html/sites/mysite/trunk/files/

I searched experts-exchange and have tried the following recommendations in other posts:
* Disabled SELinux
* Confirmed there are no .htaccess files in /mysite/
* I am using this in my http.conf file: Options +Includes +FollowSymlinks +Indexes
* I restarted Apache

...with no luck.

FYI: this is working on a development server with the exact same php.ini and http.conf files.

Any ideas?


How to fix apache error: Directory index forbidden by Options directive?

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