Directory index forbidden by Options directive

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I m using the dompdf plugin for codeigniter  http   codeigniter com wiki PDF generation using dompdf   to generate pdfs from a form  This works on localhost  but on the live server I get this in the error log   Directory index forbidden by Options directive   var www vhosts domain co uk httpdocs mm userdata account1 invoices    Any idea what this means  I ve searched for answers  and found a few that suggest editing the httpd conf  however I don t have access to this   I ve also tried adding a blank index html file to the root and document directory  as also suggested elsewhere  but to no avail    Any help greatly appreciated   Thanks

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If you ve been doing performance tuning  you might have removed mod dir  Try putting it back and that might fix your issue

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Either the main httpd conf or the  htaccess file in this directory or a nearby parent directory probably includes   Options -Indexes   Your host may have to set it to  Indexes if you don t have access in  htaccess and want to list  amp  browse the directory contents  absent a default index html  index php  etc  If the directory should not have a default file and you don t enable Indexes  you may only directly target the filenames of contents within it   The Indexes option is commonly disabled by default on many Apache installations   Full details are available in the Apache core documentation on Options

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In my case  it s a typo caused this issue    lt VirtualHost   8080 gt    should be   lt VirtualHost   8080 gt

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The Problem  Indexes visible in a web browser for directories that do not contain an index html or index php file   I had a lot of trouble with the configuration on Scientific Linux s httpd web server to stop showing these indexes   The Configuration that did not work  httpd conf virtual host directory directives    lt Directory  home mydomain com htdocs gt      Options FollowSymLinks     AllowOverride all     Require all granted  lt  Directory gt    and the addition of the following line to  htaccess   Options -Indexes   Directory indexes were still showing up   htaccess settings weren t working    How could that be  other settings in  htaccess were working  so why not this one   What s going   It should be working      amp             The Fix  Change httpd conf s Options line to   Options  FollowSymLinks   and restart the webserver        From Apache s core mod page    https   httpd apache org docs 2 4 mod core html options        Mixing Options with a   or - with those without is not valid syntax   and will be rejected during server startup by the syntax check with an   abort    Voil   directory indexes were no longer showing up for directories that did not contain an index html or index php file     Now What  A New Wrinkle  New entries started to show up in the  error log  when such a directory access was attempted    Fri Aug 19 02 57 39 922872 2016   autoindex error   pid 12479   client aaa bbb ccc ddd xxxxx  AH01276  Cannot serve directory  home mydomain com htdocs dir-without-index-file   No matching DirectoryIndex  index html index php  found  and server-generated directory index forbidden by Options directive   This entry is from the Apache module  autoindex  with a LogLevel of  error  as indicated by  autoindex error  of the error message---the format is  module name loglevel    To stop these new entries from being logged  the LogLevel needs to be changed to a higher level  e g   crit   to log fewer---only more serious error messages   Apache 2 4 LogLevels  See Apache 2 4 s core directives for LogLevel     emerg  alert  crit  error  warn  notice  info  debug  trace1  trace2  trace3  tracr4  trace5  trace6  trace7  trace8  Each level deeper into the list logs all the messages of any previous level s     Apache 2 4 s default level is  warn    Therefore  all messages classified as emerg  alert  crit  error  and warn are written to error log   Additional Fix to Stop New error log Entries  Added the following line inside the  lt Directory gt    lt  Directory gt  section of httpd conf   LogLevel crit   The Solution 1  My virtual host s httpd conf  lt Directory gt    lt  Directory gt  configuration    lt Directory  home mydomain com htdocs gt      Options  FollowSymLinks     AllowOverride all     Require all granted     LogLevel crit  lt  Directory gt    and adding to  home mydomain com htdocs  htaccess  the root directory of your website s  htaccess file   Options -Indexes   If you don t mind the  error  level messages  omit   LogLevel crit   Scientific Linux - Solution 2 - Disables mod autoindex  No more autoindex ing of directories inside your web space  No changes to  htaccess   But  need access to the httpd configuration files in  etc httpd   Edit  etc httpd conf modules d 00-base conf and comment the line    LoadModule autoindex module modules mod autoindex so   by adding a   in front of it then save the file  In the directory  etc httpd conf d rename  mv    sudo mv autoindex conf autoindex conf  lt something else gt   Restart httpd   sudo httpd -k restart   or  sudo apachectl restart    The autoindex mod is now disabled   Linux distros with ap2dismod ap2enmod Commands  Disable autoindex module enter the command      sudo a2dismod autoindex   to enable autoindex module enter      sudo a2enmod autoindex

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Another issue that you might run into if you re running RHEL  I ran into it  is that there is a default welcome page configured with the httpd package that will override your settings  even if you put Options Indexes  The file is in  etc httpd conf d welcome conf  See the following link for more info  http   wpapi com solved-issue-directory-index-forbidden-by-options-directive

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Adding this in conf d fixed this issue for me   Options  Indexes  FollowSymLinks

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Insert this lines    lt Directory  C  Program Files  x86  Apache Software Foundation Apache2 2 htdocs  gt          Options   Indexes  lt  Directory gt    In your C  Program Files  x86  Apache Software Foundation Apache2 2 conf extra httpd-vhosts conf file   I assume you are using Virtual Host for development   And then  of course  just restart Apache   Documentation

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It means there s no default document in that directory  index html  index php  etc      On most webservers  that would mean it would show a listing of the directory s contents  But showing that directory is forbidden by server configuration  Options -Indexes

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I got stuck on the same error  the problem was coming from a syntax error in a MySql statement in my code  in particular my   session variable was missing a     It took hours to figure it out because on the error log the statement was misleading  Hope it helps somebody

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