Keep getting Drupal directory index after install

Posted by idotuchman on February 9, 2008 at 6:20am

I'm new to Drupal and testing it on my localhost. Apache 2.2, PHP 5.2.4, and MySQL 5.0 are installed. After uncompressing drupal-6.0-rc4.tar.gz to a htdocs\drupal6 directory, localhost/drupal6 shows this:

Index of /drupal6

* Parent Directory
* CHANGELOG.txt
* COPYRIGHT.txt
* INSTALL.mysql.txt
* INSTALL.pgsql.txt
* INSTALL.txt
* LICENSE.txt
* MAINTAINERS.txt
* UPGRADE.txt
* cron.php
* includes/
* index.php
* install.php
* misc/
* modules/
* profiles/
* robots.txt
* scripts/
* sites/
* themes/
* update.php
* xmlrpc.php

I navigated to localhost/drupal6/install.php and drupal installed successfully. However, after install the browser returned to the drupal6 directory listing. Every time click on a link in drupal, it takes me back to the drupal6 directory listing. For example, localhost/drupal6/?q=user/1 just takes me to the directory listing.

Any ideas? Thanks.

Comments

Sounds like a server config

Posted by mickh on February 9, 2008 at 6:30am

Sounds like a server config issue. Is Apache configured to recognise index.php as a DirectoryIndex file?
If so, maybe check your htaccess configuration.

Re: Sounds like a server config

Posted by idotuchman on February 9, 2008 at 6:35am

The .htaccess in the drupal6 directory is the installed configuration file. I don't know what DirectoryIndex does, but here is the snippet from the file:

# Set the default handler.
DirectoryIndex index.php

htaccess

Posted by tm on February 9, 2008 at 6:31am

can you verify that you have a .htaccess file? it is probably a "hidden" file. that should have an "Options -Indexes" setting, which i think is supposed to hide the listings.

the other thing is, be sure that index.php is the first item in directoryindex (httpd.conf in apache/conf)

i think.

Re: htaccess

Posted by idotuchman on February 9, 2008 at 6:39am

I do have an .htaccess file. It's 113 lines. Here are the first few lines:

#
# Apache/PHP/Drupal settings:
#

# Protect files and directories from prying eyes.

Order allow,deny

# Don't show directory listings for URLs which map to a directory.
Options -Indexes

# Follow symbolic links in this directory.
Options +FollowSymLinks

# Customized error messages.
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php

# Set the default handler.
DirectoryIndex index.php

# Override PHP settings. More in sites/default/settings.php
# but the following cannot be changed at runtime.

httpd.conf file

Posted by idotuchman on February 9, 2008 at 6:44am

tm,

in my httpd.conf file, it says:

#
# DirectoryIndex: sets the file that Apache will serve if a directory
# is requested.
#
<IfModule dir_module>
    DirectoryIndex index.html
</IfModule>

Does this seem correct?

Try this: DirectoryIndex

Posted by mickh on February 9, 2008 at 6:48am

Try this:

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html

Also, you might need to sort out whether this is running as a Virtual Host, and see how that is configured. You need 'AllowOverride All' set for your DocumentRoot directory for htaccess to work. Either that or set it in your main httpd.conf file ... I know, this stuff gets messy to explain pretty quickly.

It works! Yeay!

Posted by idotuchman on February 9, 2008 at 7:04am

I changed DirectoryIndex index.php index.html in both httpd.conf and .htaccess and looks like drupal is working. Thanks mickh and tm. You guys are very generous.
-Ido

Thanks a lot

Posted by sumanta88 on September 17, 2008 at 12:20am

This worked great after 3 days of crazy time!