Directory index forbidden by option directive:var/www/html

[Shyamala]

The issue is the Virtual host settings in our httpd.conf file does not gets recognised. If  I access the  Ip mentioned in  the Vhost settings I go to the Redhat default page.

 

The paths var, var/www,var/www/html all have 777 access permission.

 

We are using RHEL Version 5 OS

 

Settings in httpd conf********

 

NameVirtualHost n.n.n.n:80

 

ServerAdmin n.n.n.n

Servername n.n.n.n

DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/mysite"

 

**********END of httpd.conf

 

 

The error that i get in my log is "Directory index forbidden by option directive:var/www/html"

[steviewdr]

Try:

 

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>

    ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com

    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/mysite

    ServerName computername.com

    ErrorLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-error_log

    CustomLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log common

</VirtualHost>

 

Its definately a vhost issue.

 

-steve

[Shyamala]

Thanks for your support.We solved the issue by setting

this

 

Name VirtualHost *:80

 

<VirtualHost *:80>

ServerName n.n.n.n

DocumentRoot /www/domain

</VirtualHost>

 

We are unable to access url://n.n.n.n from inside the

host machine. This problem surfaced yesterday, even

before we made the above mentioned settings. What are

the reasons for inability to access IP from inside

host. Thanks once again for your prompt support.

 

[steviewdr]

"What are

the reasons for inability to access IP from inside

host."

Was this a question you wanted answered?

 

Perhaps you have a firewall on the machine itself preventing access from 127.0.0.1 to n.n.n.n?

 

-steve

[trq]

What are

the reasons for inability to access IP from inside

host.

 

If you using the hostname (or even the WAN ip) your computer will try and resolv the host to ip via DNS ovber the internet. A quck fix is to place...

 

192.168.1.4 domainname.com

 

(Using your owm ip and domain name of course) into your /etc/hosts file (on Linux). This file also exists in windows but I'm not sure where. Just search for hosts.