I am Forbidden to view my folders...Um, why!?

[evil_gamer]

Okay, I have a couple of folders in my main directory but I cannot access them, when I type in the url I get a 403 Forbidden message. Any idea what is going on here? I can use images and stuff on html pages from these directories but I cannot access the directories directly

I can do this: <img src="directory1/image.gif">
but not this: http://www.mysite.com/directory1 - get a 403 Forbidden error when I try. Whats up?

[chrisjk]

I'll bet good money if you type the whole URL including the filename, it'll work fine

e.g http://www.mysite.com/directory1/index.html

[evil_gamer]

It did work, but what is keeping me from going to /dir and seeing an indexed list?

[chrisjk]

no idea. I thought I had severly broken something when I got a forbidden message, then I tried typing the whole URL and it worked. I guess it's just refusing to supply the dir list for some reason or you've got more than 1 file with the word index in it's name perhaps

[zmerlinz]

i had a very similar problem like this the other day, if you want like a directory list thing, you need to change the url slightly you need to add another / at the end

so the url should read

www.mysite.com/directory1/

this should work for you now

[JoshT]

For security reasons, both IIS and Apache can be configured to deny directory browsing.

[zmerlinz]

Originally posted by JoshT
For security reasons, both IIS and Apache can be configured to deny directory browsing.

never found that setting when i was running IIS, can't of been looking properly then

[JoshT]

There's a "Directory Browsing" check box on the "Directory" tabs - right by the Read/Write/Execute check boxes in ISM.