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Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 21:04:09 +0100
From: Michael Thompson <mike@thompsonmike.co.uk>
Reply-To: Michael Thompson <mike@thompsonmike.co.uk>
Message-ID: <16949449359.20031018210409@thompsonmike.co.uk>
To: Willem-Jan Meijer <users@httpd.apache.org>
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References: <7245212593.20031018195333@thompsonmike.co.uk>
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Subject: Re[2]: [users@httpd] Forgive a Newbie :(

Hello Willem-Jan,


On Sat, 18 Oct 2003, at 21:50:09 [GMT +0200] (which was 20:50 in my
TimeZone) you wrote:


> Michael Thompson <mailto:mike@thompsonmike.co.uk> schreef op zaterdag 18
> oktober 2003 20:54:

>> Hi Users,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>   This is such an st00pid question!
>> 
>>   I have set up my apache server to enable the users to have their own
>>   directorys for their content. However when they go to a incomplete
>>   path such as http://whatever/~user1/ they get a permission denied
>>   error. They need to enter the full path such as
>>   http://whatever/~user1/index.htm it is fine.
>> 
>>   How can I get apache to serve files such as index.htm etc to the
>>   default web address?

> Did you set the DirectoryIndex ? You can add here as much as docnames as you
> want to be opened as index. When there isn't a file with a name listed in
> DirectoryIndex you will get the error message.

> -WJ


doh. My bad. Apologies! Thanks for the shove in the right
direction....

-- 
Best regards,
 Michael

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