Monthly Archives: December 2009

Apache Directory Indexing

Sometimes a problem persists long enough—is an irritant long enough—that I’ll burn an entire Sunday morning simply out of spite. Today’s irrational time-waste went to solving “Directory index forbidden by Options directive.”

[marmaduke ~] $ cat /var/log/httpd/error_log \
| grep ‘\[error\]‘ \
| head -1
[Sun Dec 06 09:25:05 2009] [error] [client 192.168.2.29]↩
Directory index forbidden by Options [...]