Symphony.

Encountering errors on installation attempts (tried installing via git and .zip file -- same errors both times).

After apparent successful execution of the install script, server responds with a 403 forbidden error (url: [mydomain.com]/symphony/).

Error log says the following:

[Mon Aug 22 19:40:51 2011] [error] [client 10.0.0.200] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /var/www/html/sycms/symphony/, referer: http://sycms.rubystudio.com/install.php

More details: Files appear to be in place under install directory. I'm using Apache -- all files/dirs owned by apache.

root dir, symphony, and workspace dirs set to 775.

mysql tables appear to've been successfully created.

My guess is something's causing .htaccess and/or mod_rewrite to break. Can anyone provide any insight?

Thanks, CS

Remove the -Indexes from the .htaccess and see how that goes. I'm not sure why that's locked down, it's a security enhancement to prevent people browsing your directories.

Brendo, Thanks for the suggestion, but problem still persists. Frustrating -- can't put my finger on the actual cause of the problem

Could it be an error in the .htaccess due to a sub-domain being used?

/var/www/html/sycms/symphony/

http://sycms.rubystudio.com/install.php

Thanks for the suggestion, Kalvind, but that's apparently not the problem. I reconfigured httpd to test with a non-subdomain -- same problem.

Would appreciate any suggestions before throwing in the towel.

Can you run any PHP website on this server with a .htaccess?

Googling seems to think something about the vhosts setup.

What server are you running?

Brendo, I'm using Apache 2, and the domain in question is being served as a virtual host.

I'm able to run PHP scripts -- in fact, the install.php script appears to execute successfully -- and expected files/db initialization appear to do what they're supposed to do. The problem occurs just after install, when the script forwards the browser to /symphony -- results in a 403 error. I suspect something's going on with mod_rewrite, but I'm stuck here. Can you point me to the information you found on virtual host issues?

Thanks!

This was the first Google result that seemed to be relevant

Thanks, Brendo. I think the server may be responding properly in the circumstances -- it's delivering the 403 error because I'm attempting to access a directory (/symphony) that doesn't have an index file (and directory browsing is disabled).

Which leads me to an obvious question I should've asked in the first post: should there be an index file (eg. index.php) in /symphony? If so, then I have an installation problem. Currently, there are four directories under symphony (assets, content, lib, and template) -- no index.php.

Solved it. Turns out I'm a bit of a dunce -- had to modify the Apache configuration: in httpd.conf, in the <Directory "/var/www/html"> section, changed "AllowOverride None" to "AllowOverride All" -- this allows .htaccess settings to override Apache config.

Should've resolved the issue sooner, but I'm unschooled in the vagaries of htaccess -- I've been conditioned to prefer adjustments to Apache config over htaccess -- in fact, I intend to move Symphony's .htaccess config into httpd.conf at some point.

Anyway, thanks for all the suggestions. On to the XSLT tutorials.

Best, CS

I'm glad you got it sorted :)