You need:

DirectoryIndex	index.htm

either in the global section or in the VirtualHost declarations.

Adam Maloney
Systems Administrator
Sihope Communications

On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Apu wrote:

> there is no log file there. Only file there is htdocs. I have made the
> directories for individual users.The root documentroot seems to be not
> working. It may have overridden that with new settings ?
> 
> BTW when I put index.htm on the url after seeing that forbidden it gives me
> one of the users document root's index.htm.
> 
> Seems like I am very close but not quite there.
> 
> Apu
> 
> 
> Adam Maloney wrote:
> 
> > Does the directory exist, and are the permissions correct?  Is Apache
> > looking for a a default document, but there isn't one and apache won't do
> > a directoryindex?
> >
> > You can usually do a:
> >
> > tail -f /usr/local/apache/logs/error_log and get a more admin-parsable
> > error message to see what the real problem is.
> >
> > Adam Maloney
> > Systems Administrator
> > Sihope Communications
> >
> > On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 isla0005 at tc.umn.edu wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I have added the following lines on my httpd.conf
> > >
> > > NameVirtualHost 24.111.111.111.11
> > >
> > > <VirtualHost 24.111.111.111.11>
> > > ServerName work.apu.homeip.net
> > > DocumentRoot /usr/users/work/www
> > > </VirtualHost>
> > >
> > > <virtualHost 24.111.111.11>
> > > ServerName leffew.apu.homeip.net
> > > DocumentRoot /usr/users/leffew/www
> > > </VirtualHost>
> > >
> > > ** IP address is just a dummy one
> > >
> > > When I restart apache and then try to access my page, I get a
> > > " Frbidden" error .
> > >
> > > Any clue ?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Apu
> > >
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