Server cannot find index.html

streitz · - Joined: 27 Mar 2003 Posts: 1 Location: St. Louis, MO

I am Having an issue with the Web Server finding my index file. I have pointed the exact path to the location of the index file, but I continue to get "ERROR 403 - Forbidden", when attempting http://streitz.servebeer.com. I can get directly yo the index file by http://streitz.servebeer.com/index.html. Is anyone else having this issue? Any Help is appreciated. Thanks.
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Bob Streitz

WhiteDevil · - Joined: 07 Oct 2002 Posts: 74 Location: United Kingdom

thats wierd, try setting your domain to point to http://streitz.servebeer.com/ (i added a forward slash on the end).

That was it should search for a file in the root directory, and should find the index file if you have Abyss setup correctly.

i suggest launching Abyss - going to the control panel - finding the CGI parameters place, then entering checking that index.html is added to the list... it may be that just .htm is added...
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aprelium · - Joined: 22 Mar 2002 Posts: 6800

goose · Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2003 1:56 pm Post subject:

so grasshopper that would explain the reason why i cant reach certain websites which display 403 forbidden pages?

:roll:

GR££DY · - Joined: 22 Mar 2003 Posts: 4 Location: Sheffield, U.K.

I'm having a similar problem to this. The company which owns my domain forwards it to a DNS server, which then re-directs it to my computer, this all worked fine up until yesterday when I tried monkeying around with it.

Recently my computer and modem have been borking with annoying regularity, so I decided to take advantage of the DNS servers' offline redirection service.

To do this I had to change the URL forwarding, and remove the trailing /index.html, now I cannot get the server to serve the index.html page as default. I get an error 404, and have had to put a 0 second redirect from the 404 page to my home page - not ideal. I have listed index.html in the INDEX portion of the console, and there are no other index files there to confuse it.

Can anyone help? :?

goose · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2003 1:21 pm Post subject:

what did u do grasshopper?

GR££DY · - Joined: 22 Mar 2003 Posts: 4 Location: Sheffield, U.K.

Okay, the DNS server wasn't putting a trailing / on the end of the URL, so I created an alias with / as the virtual path, and c:\program files\abyss web server\htdocs/ as the real path, and now it works. :D

goose · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2003 11:38 am Post subject:

that would be right grasshopper! :lol: