Error Message
Cannot serve directory /var/www/html/: No matching
DirectoryIndex (index.php,index.html) found, and server-generated directory
index forbidden by Options directive, referer
When?
When we try to host a Laravel application in the PHP
container, we have faced the above-mentioned issue while accessing the
application root URL.
The reason for this error message
When we access the application URL, the root folder does not
have any index.html or index.php files. The index.php file will be available in
the /public subfolder folder.
That is the reason we used to get this error.
For security reasons, we will stop listing folder structures
by using the following option: Which will prevent showing files and folders if
there is no index file.
Options -Indexes
If we set the following option, the error will go off. start
lighting folders and files, but the application will not work.
Options +Indexes
A proper fix for this error message
There are multiple ways we can fix this issue.
Method 1 Set the root folder to public
(/var/www/html/public) in the httpd.conf file.
Method 2 Use the following code in the
root.htaccess file
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^public
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
