Error - Directory index forbidden by Options directive? [duplicate]

Question

I have been working on this server for the entire semester and have not changed any configuration options - the directories/files I created a couple weeks ago are still accessible, however any new directories, even exact duplicate of old working directories don't let me access them - get error "Directory index forbidden by Options directive". What is causing this?

Answer 1

Looks like someone disabled directory listing in Apache. If you are allowed to override it with .htaccess just place an .htaccess file in your root web directory with this information:

Options +Indexes

Answer 2

For me this was an issue with not simply having an index.html or index.php (depending on what is in the .htaccess file) file in a folder and trying to pull it's contents. Then again I was using php to read contents, not by command line like I assume you are. If you still have not found a solution try creating an index.(php,html) in the directory that you can't pull contents from.