website pointing to index.html

[lberlin]

I have an issue that I couldn't solve. When I tried to see my website with the mydomain.com doesn't show up and it shows this message

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

The only way that I can see my website if I type mydomain.com/index.html

Any suggestions.

Thanks

 

[Zubair]

What are the permission of public_html file??

Remove or Rename .htaccess file in public_html folder and see if the problem solve

 

[farscapeone]

Boss wanted to say that your .htaccess file could be causing this problem. I don't recommend removing it if you don't know anything about it and can't get it back again. The problem with .htaccess could be that you have DirectoryIndex parameter set to something else and not index.html or whatever page you want to be your index page. To set any page (or any number of pages) to be your index page add this line of code to your .htaccess file in your root directory (public_html). If there's no .htaccess file you'll have to create one.

DirectoryIndex any_file.html

Be sure to change "any_file.html" to "index.html" or whatever page you want to set as index.

For more the one page just append them like this:

DirectoryIndex any_file.html any_file.htm any_file.php

 

[carl6969]

A common practice in situations like this is to rename .htaccess to .htaccess.old which will prevent Apache from reading the file without actually deleting the file. After you are finished with diagnosis and any needed repair you can simply remove the ".old" from the end of the file name to make it readable by Apache once again. Hope this is helpful in some way.