[autoindex:error] No matching DirectoryIndex

[Sun May 17 05:22:43.313979 2020] [autoindex:error] [pid 1234:tid 140222558668] [client 9.1228.110.167:171311] AH01276: Cannot serve directory /home/***/***/***.com/private_html/: No matching DirectoryIndex (index.html,index.htm,index.shtml,index.php,index.phtml) found, and server-generated directory index forbidden by Options directive, referer: https://www.***.com/

Reason One:

Apache Error

By default Apache is configured with the following:

<IfModule dir_module>
DirectoryIndex index.html
</IfModule>

We have to change it to

<IfModule dir_module>
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
</IfModule>

Adding index.php directive.

How to change?

Open httpd.conf

vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Change accordingly and then restart httpd

systemctl restart httpd

Reason Two:

Symbolink link error from private_html

“Use a symbolink link from private_html to public_html – allows for same data in http and https” instead of “Use a directory named private_html”