enabling directory listing for a subdirectory with apache

Hi,

I have a web site hosted on apache 1.3.27. It's a plain web hosting service
and I have no control over the server and don't know anything about it's
configuration.

directory listing seems to be disabled by default and I would like to enable
it for one directory. I have put a .htaccess file with:

Options +Indexes

But I still get 403 Forbidden when I try to list the directory. Any ideas?

many thanks

Andy

"Andy Fish" <ajfish@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:
> I have a web site hosted on apache 1.3.27. It's a plain web hosting service
> and I have no control over the server and don't know anything about it's
> configuration.
>
> directory listing seems to be disabled by default and I would like to enable
> it for one directory. I have put a .htaccess file with:
>
> Options +Indexes
>
> But I still get 403 Forbidden when I try to list the directory. Any ideas?

`chmod a+rx directory-name` would be my first guess. Probably o+rx or
g+rx would be sufficient, but I can't tell which from here.

--
Chris

"Chris Morris" <c.i.morris@durham.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:87acymy6xg.fsf@dinopsis.dur.ac.uk...
> "Andy Fish" <ajfish@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:
> > I have a web site hosted on apache 1.3.27. It's a plain web hosting
service
> > and I have no control over the server and don't know anything about it's
> > configuration.
> >
> > directory listing seems to be disabled by default and I would like to
enable
> > it for one directory. I have put a .htaccess file with:
> >
> > Options +Indexes
> >
> > But I still get 403 Forbidden when I try to list the directory. Any
ideas?
>
> `chmod a+rx directory-name` would be my first guess. Probably o+rx or
> g+rx would be sufficient, but I can't tell which from here.
>

Hmm, I already have that.

files put in the directory can be read OK, it's just the directory listing
that won't work

> --
> Chris