Seeing a dir. in Netscape

["Anthony E . Greene" <agreene pobox com>]

On Tue, 31 Aug 1999 17:30:21 Ali wrote:
>I am using redhat 6.0 with a dynamic IP and HTTP is loaded.
>I made a directory public_html with the proper chmod, I can see
>my homepage in the browser with all the pic. and so on.
>Then I made a dir. under /home/username/public_html/images
>with chmod 755. The problem is that when i go to Netscape
>and go to http://127.0.0.1/username/images it tells me:
>Forbiden  I have no permission to see that dir. on this server.
>I know I did the proper chmod, what is wrong and how can I correct
>this problem.

By default Apache does not allow the listing of a directory's 
contents. You can enable these feature by adding

  Options Indexes

to the appropriate directory section in the Apache config file. 
It is seen as a possible security hazard to allow people to see 
your directory structure unecessarily.

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