index.php not loading on localhost

[mrherman]

I've installed Drupal 7.1 on my computer and I'm trying to access it via localhost.  However, the site does not load the "index.php" file.  Instead, I get the list of files and folders in the working directory with the heading "Index of /drupal71" (drupal71 is the temporary site name).

 

The .htaccess file has the following lines, so I'm confused as to why index.php doesn't load automatically.

# Set the default handler.
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm

 

Any suggestions?

 

 

[kryoxis]

is your index.php in the correct folder?

[mrherman]

Thanks for the reply.  Yeah, the index.php was in the correct folder, but I finally discovered the problem!  In the Apache folder, the "httpd.conf" file did not contain "index.php" in the dir_module (about line number 244):

 

#
# DirectoryIndex: sets the file that Apache will serve if a directory
# is requested.
#
<IfModule dir_module>
    DirectoryIndex index.html index.php (<-- I added)
</IfModule>

 

Thanks again!