403 Forbidden Error

[locogeek94]

When I log into my URL I get this 403 Forbidden - "You don't have permission to access on this server." But when I type in the index.html after the URL the website comes up.
How can this be corrected?

[stpvoice]

Hello,

Could you please post the contents of your .htaccess file?

[Livewire]

Hello,

Could you please post the contents of your .htaccess file?

You're dead on.

@locogeek94, your .htaccess has a line that is killing your website:

DirectoryIndex index.php

Along with

Options -Indexes

This means that it won't serve you any page at all if you don't have an index.php in there; you have index.html. I'd HIGHLY recommend changing the .htaccess DirectoryIndex line to this:

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm

This should cause a failover system - if there's no index.php, it'll look for index.html. If there's not one, then index.htm. If that's STILL not there, try to serve an index. If Options -Indexes, then 403 forbid.

The good news is you'll likely have an index.php, html, or htm in every folder, so this should alleviate the problem.

[locogeek94]

Thanks for the response.
I did look at my .htaccess file and made the necessary correction.
Uploaded back to the server and I am back in business again.
Have a great week!