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Posted by: Dabom

I have a website at http://www.tf-mod.f2s.com. Now, I have a directory called images. If I type http://www.tf-mod.f2s.com/images in my web browser I get the 403 Forbidden screen telling me I don't have permission to access /images/ on this server.

What I want to be able to do is access my subdirectorys. My host is Freedom 2 Surf. They run an Apache web server 1.3.19.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.



Posted by: Canis Lupus

Seems your webserver is running a script that prevents viewing of subfolders without an index page ... nothing much you can do about it, unless you can talk the administrator into disabling it ... Anyway, you can do one of two things:

1.) Create an HTML page that has links to all the images within the subfolder. Kinda tedious if you have lots of images in the folder, but once you got them all in, you just need to update the HTML file everytime you upload a new image...

2.) If your server supports custom CGI scripts, you can try running an image indexing script. Check out a list of options here:
http://cgi.resourceindex.com/Progra...Image_Indexing/



Posted by: Dabom

Even placing an index file into the subfolder doesn't work. I have the .htacces file setup correctly since I use shtml for my index pages but that doesn't affect the subfolders. However, I have never had a problem the "first directory that contains everything," not sure what to call it.



Posted by: Jess

Quote:

Originally posted by Dabom
"first directory that contains everything," not sure what to call it.

- It's called the 'Base' or 'Root Directory'.

I type http://www.tf-mod.f2s.com/images in my web browser I get the 403 Forbidden screen telling me I don't have permission to access /images/ on this server.

- That's because you have the permissions denying access to the general Public.

- Logg into your account with your default FTP client and set your permissions to: 0777, or 777 if your client does not support 0's.

If your client does not allow you to manipulate the permissions then I'd suggest getting a new one

Try BulletProof FTP, FTPPro, or something:

LeapFTP is the most powerfull and flexable client there is today. Hope that helps, have fun





 
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