Apache :: Directory index forbidden by Options directive

rkorebrits

Hi Guys,
For some odd reason, i sporadically receive errors on pages that normally work fine. I don't know why, but sometimes it just craps out.. Do you guys have a clue what this could be?
It says 'Directory index forbidden', and that is right, it is forbidden. But I have also set 'DirectoyIndex' to index.php and that file is there. Why would it not pickup the index.php and throw this error?

error log:
[Wed Aug 31 10:31:15 2011] [error] [client 124.115.0.158] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: C:/apachewww/privatesites/www/

access log:
124.115.0.158 - - [31/Aug/2011:10:31:15 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 403 202

Windows server 2008 R2
apache 2.2.17
php 5.3.6

James Blond

Is there an index.php after DirectoryIndex in httpd.conf?

rkorebrits

Yep..

James Blond

What about the <Directory ... > stuff? Changed that to your documentroot?

rkorebrits

Yep, I have set that up per domain (I sent my vhosts as an attachment to you in my last e-mail).

The weird thing is that it only seems to happen on 1 of the 4 projects that are installed on the server... I don't have a clue...

James Blond

Sorry, I was confused that you are you from the mails Wink

I can reach that project without any issue. (wordpress.*)

rkorebrits

James Blond

Compare the access log and error log and try to find out which client tried to access which url.

rkorebrits

So here's a list of 5 random error's in the last night. What does "202" mean after 403? In the access log, most requests with 200 OK have 7561 behind them..

[Thu Sep 01 23:17:46 2011] [error] [client 123.125.71.95] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: C:/apachewww/privatesites/www/
123.125.71.95 - - [01/Sep/2011:23:17:46 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 403 202
(Baidu bot)

[Thu Sep 01 23:17:48 2011] [error] [client 220.181.108.171] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: C:/apachewww/privatesites/www/
220.181.108.171 - - [01/Sep/2011:23:17:48 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 403 202
(Baidu bot)

[Thu Sep 01 23:37:04 2011] [error] [client 173.225.17.50] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: C:/apachewww/privatesites/www/
173.225.17.50 - - [01/Sep/2011:23:37:04 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 403 202

[Thu Sep 01 23:42:44 2011] [error] [client 173.225.17.50] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: C:/apachewww/privatesites/www/
173.225.17.50 - - [01/Sep/2011:23:42:44 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 403 202

[Fri Sep 02 00:09:42 2011] [error] [client 66.249.72.175] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: C:/apachewww/privatesites/www/
66.249.72.175 - - [02/Sep/2011:00:09:42 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 403 202
(Google bot)

Edit

Also, How can I find out from what domain the error has come. The access and error log both constantly say the request was to '/'. But on which domain?

James Blond

the 202 are the bytes of the error document.

For figuring out it comes from: Create error log and access log in each domain.

e.g.

rkorebrits

Does that also work with serveraliases? I have 1 domain for the project, but all individual sites are aliases.. I could set-up each domain seperately, but that's going to be much harder to manage? On 1 project we are expecting a couple hundred/thousand sites in a short time...

I've added you code for now, so at least the log files are seperated!

James Blond

Yes you can figure that out. But for that you have to change the logging format and using %v. please see http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_log_config.html#formats for this.