Apache - Directory index forbidden by Options directive
by Alpha01
By default, the CentOS Apache configuration does not allow index directory listings. So I enabled Indexes Option on the directory that I wanted allow this feature within my custom vhost. To my surprise after I made the Apache config update, directory listing was not working and I was still getting the default CentOS Apache welcome page.
Error
[Sat Apr 26 14:42:11 2014] [error] [client 192.168.100.1] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /www/mysecureshit/
It turns out the default /etc/httpd/conf.d/welcome.conf file option overrides the +Indexing Options that I explicitly enabled within my custom vhost.
#
# This configuration file enables the default "Welcome"
# page if there is no default index page present for
# the root URL. To disable the Welcome page, comment
# out all the lines below.
#
<LocationMatch "^/+$">
Options -Indexes
ErrorDocument 403 /error/noindex.html
</LocationMatch>
Fix
Delete /etc/httpd/conf.d/welcome.conf.
apache centos