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by **Stan McCan** » Wed, 21 Oct 1998 04:00:00

I have Apache 1.3b5 running on a Solaris 2.6 machine. I was trying to
auto index in a user subdirectory and get a "Forbidden You don't have
permission to access /~user/subdirectory/ on this server" message if
index.html does not exist. What I am trying to do is set up a directory
that will contain graphic files that may change frequently. I don't
want to have to edit an index.html every time I change the images in the
directory so I did not create an index.html file expecting one to be
generated automatically. I have tried giving the world read, write, and
execute attributes but it does not seem to be a rights problem. Auto
indexing works in the user's public_html directory and in subdirectories
off the document root. Is there some special setting to put in the
config files to get this to work? Or is this considered a security
risk? Any help will be greatly appreciated as I have gone through and
through the docs looking for something with no luck.

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by **Marc Slemk** » Thu, 22 Oct 1998 04:00:00

Quote:>I have Apache 1.3b5 running on a Solaris 2.6 machine. I was trying to
>auto index in a user subdirectory and get a "Forbidden You don't have
>permission to access /~user/subdirectory/ on this server" message if
>index.html does not exist. What I am trying to do is set up a directory
>that will contain graphic files that may change frequently. I don't
>want to have to edit an index.html every time I change the images in the
>directory so I did not create an index.html file expecting one to be
>generated automatically. I have tried giving the world read, write, and
>execute attributes but it does not seem to be a rights problem. Auto
>indexing works in the user's public_html directory and in subdirectories
>off the document root. Is there some special setting to put in the
>config files to get this to work? Or is this considered a security
>risk? Any help will be greatly appreciated as I have gone through and
>through the docs looking for something with no luck.

It is only a security risk if you want to hide something.

You probably need to set the "Options" setting properly. See the
manual for details on how it is set and what (ie. "Indexes") has to
be included.

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auto index user subdirectory?

auto index user subdirectory?

auto index user subdirectory?