Re: OT: Directory index forbidden by rule

Will.Spencer wrote:

This is off-topic, but I know there are quite a few very bright
webmasters here. Please assist.

I have a web site, http://www.tech-faq.com, running as a virtual host
under Apache on a FreeBSD system.

Sometimes, while browsing the web site, the following error message
will suddenly pop up:


Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site
http://www.tech-faq.com/telephony/pbx.shtml

Operation aborted
[end error message]

The standard 404 page is then displayed -- even though my web site has
a custom 404 page:

[begin 404 page]
The page cannot be displayed
The page you are looking for is currently unavailable. The Web site
might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to
adjust your browser settings.
[end 404 page]

When this happens, the following entries appear in the virtual
server's error log:

[begin error log]
[Mon Nov 29 00:12:23 2004] [error] [client 206.251.246.130] Directory
index forbidden by rule: /Hosted/tech-faq.com/telephony/
[Mon Nov 29 00:12:23 2004] [error] [client 206.251.246.130] Directory
index forbidden by rule: /Hosted/tech-faq.com/telephony/
[Mon Nov 29 00:12:33 2004] [error] [client 206.251.246.130] Directory
index forbidden by rule: /Hosted/tech-faq.com/telephony/
[Mon Nov 29 00:12:33 2004] [error] [client 206.251.246.130] Directory
index forbidden by rule: /Hosted/tech-faq.com/telephony/
[Mon Nov 29 00:12:47 2004] [error] [client 206.251.246.130] Directory
index forbidden by rule: /Hosted/tech-faq.com/telephony/
[Mon Nov 29 00:12:57 2004] [error] [client 206.251.246.130] Directory
index forbidden by rule: /Hosted/tech-faq.com/telephony/
[Mon Nov 29 00:12:57 2004] [error] [client 206.251.246.130] Directory
index forbidden by rule: /Hosted/tech-faq.com/telephony/
[Mon Nov 29 00:12:57 2004] [error] [client 206.251.246.130] Directory
index forbidden by rule: /Hosted/tech-faq.com/telephony/
[Mon Nov 29 00:13:12 2004] [error] [client 206.251.246.130] Directory
index forbidden by rule: /Hosted/tech-faq.com/telephony/
[Mon Nov 29 00:13:23 2004] [error] [client 206.251.246.130] Directory
index forbidden by rule: /Hosted/tech-faq.com/telephony/
[Mon Nov 29 00:13:23 2004] [error] [client 206.251.246.130] Directory
index forbidden by rule: /Hosted/tech-faq.com/telephony/
[end error log]


This error happens probably (making up a number) 2% of the time.

This error does not occur with the other virtual servers on this same
web server -- most of which are mine.

I am testing using the latest Internet Explorer.

Ideas?

Hi Will

Try this over on alt.apache.configuration

There are some pretty knowledgeable guys there that deal with this sort
of thing on a daily basis. Be sure to include the error log as above.

I hope that helps.


--
Tony