Drupal is installed directly at the public folder www level. Thus the .htaccess controls all movement to the subdirectories.
I am trying to install other softwares in the subdirectories. But i kept getting 403 Forbidden messages that says there is no permission to access the directory.
A check at the error log says: (for example)
[Sat Mar 15 16:00:00 2008] [error] [client x.x.x.x] Directory index forbidden by rule : /big/dom/xabc/www/PIVOT/
Question: How is this rule set? In what file is it specified?
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I do not know if it is relevant but the error log shows this message regularly:
[Wed Mar 12 03:47:53 2008] [error] [client x.x.x.x] mod_rewrite: maximum number of internal redirects reached. Assuming configuration error. Use 'RewriteOptions MaxRedirects' to increase the limit if neccessary.
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Question: do you think that the .htaccess has set a rule which prevents me from installing software in the subdirectories?
Considerations:
(1) Hosting company said they did not do anything to it. Therefore nothing to do with hosting company.
(2) This error happens when i tried to install various softwares in the www/subdirectory. Therefore nothing to do with software.
(3) It has not happen before when Drupal was kept in a subdirectory. But it happen when Drupal was moved to www root. Not sure if it is a coincidence.