Re: [cobalt-users] Directory Index Forbidden ?

[craig <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> While going through all my logs I found this in my httpd log directory
> in adm_error
> [Thu Jun 20 04:30:10 2002] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Directory index
> forbidden by rule: /usr/admserv/html/
> Is this Normal Or Abnormal?
>
> What would cause such a rule?
>
> What is Directory Index supposed to do?
>
> Thanks

that means some one whent to that directory like
http://domnain.com/directory
and as the directory does not have index.htm file you get forbideen
as you don't what to list the files in there if there is no index file

you control this with Options
eg Options +Indexs  Or Options -Indexs