DirectoryIndex : Forbidden Error

Some times you may get Forbidden error when you access the site in browser.

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ERROR
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Forbidden

You don’t have permission to access / on this server.

Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
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When we check the apache logs, we will have the following errors.

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Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /home/site/public_html/
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We can fix the issue by simply adding the following in the file “.htaccess”.

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DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
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Now, we can access the domain without any issue. Thats it.

Have a nice day 🙂