Not being familiar with how to configure my htaccess file, can anyone tell me, simply, how I can allow general access to a directory I have set up myself, which has nothing to do with my Drupal installation, but which is currently giving a '403' error when access is attempted.
Best, Tim
Not being familiar with how to configure my htaccess file, can anyone tell me, simply, how I can allow general access to a directory I have set up myself, which has nothing to do with my Drupal installation, but which is currently giving a '403' error when access is attempted.
This should be already possible - Drupal only is handed control of the URL when Apache discovers that a) the requested file doesn't exist, and b) the requested directory doesn't exist. Since your directory exists, Apache should process it as normal.
I suspect, more than likely, that you're missing an "index.html" or "index.php" in the new directory, and Apache hasn't been set up with a proper DirectoryIndex. Looking in your error_log will tell you the correct error (403 is not immediately helpful).
Morbus Iff wrote:
I suspect, more than likely, that you're missing an "index.html" or "index.php" in the new directory
Yes, that's the problem. However, in the directory in question there are a series of mp3 files (podcasts) which I would like people to have free access to without them defaulting to an 'index' file when they attempt to access that directory.
Best, Tim
Yes, that's the problem. However, in the directory in question there are a series of mp3 files (podcasts) which I would like people to have free access to without them defaulting to an 'index' file when they attempt to access that directory.
In which case, yes, the default Drupal .htaccess is causing that. You'll want to add a new .htaccess in the podcasts directory with simply:
Options +Indexes
This will revert the "Options -Indexes" in the parent directory (ie., Drupal's .htaccess) and should do what you want.
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Tim Rowe