jdMorgan - 9:28 pm on Feb 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

OK, well that narrows things down a bit.

First, there is no "unexpected" redirect happening that is causing the 403, since the header check showed the 403 response immediately (I presume) in response to your request for the page, and not a 301 or 302 redirect.

Then the error log (that's the one I meant) shows an error reading the directory. That is "the" problem, although I can't say I know what it means, since I haven't seen that one before.

Do you have multiviews (content-negotiation) enabled, and if so, do you really use/need it? If not, you could turn them off and see if that either fixes or changes the problem. The directive would be
Options -MultiViews in either .htaccess or httpd.conf.

That is a guess, and only a guess, based on the word "Multi" in the logged error message.

Jim

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