Forbidden - no permission to access.

I would like to accest a folder

[Montbazin]

Hello

I have several computers connected together through a LinkSys gateway

On one of the computers which is on Linux I have Apache installed ans some webpages in

 var/www/html 

There is no problem in addressing the

 index.php 

located in this folder with

 http://192.168.1.68 

, but if I want to open another folder with

 http://192.168.1.68/myfolder/ 

, I get an error message :

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /myfolder/ on this server.

I would like to be able to put documents in this folder in order to be able to download them in my other computer.

I have

chmod 777 

all the folders on the

 var/www/html 

path, but without any result.

Thanks for your help
roberto

[jd01]

It does not sound like you have uploaded anything to this directory yet (or not an index page)? If this is the case, and 'Option Indexes' is not set, you will receive a Forbiden error when you try to open the directory in a browser...

If this is the case, to fix it, you will need to either:
Turn the indexes on EG
Options +Indexes

OR

You will need to upload an index file

OR

Request the files directly by their name, not try to open the directory.

If I have misread your question, please let us know.

Hope this helps.

Justin

[Montbazin]

Thanks Justin
I've been absent for a couple of days... sorry.

what is :
...Turn the indexes on EG
Options +Indexes...?

What I want to do is just to have a folder where I can see the files in it and eventually download them. I used to do this on my hosting service.
When I place an

index.html

inside te folder, the it works of course, but that is not what I woud like to achieve.

roberto

[jdMorgan]

> Options +Indexes...?

Yes, that will enable a 'viewable index' of the folder, as long as no index.html page is present. (Actually as long as no page named in a DirectoryIndex directive is present).

Jim

[Montbazin]

Options +Indexes...?

where can I find the DirectoryIndex...

I still have many problems understanding Apache
thanks
roberto

[jdMorgan]

Description of Apache DirectoryIndex [httpd.apache.org] directive.

You can place it in the httpd.conf file, or in a .htaccess file.

Jim

[Montbazin]

Thanx Jim

roberto