Question

on my Magento site (not the real url 😉 ), I have http://magento.local.com/media/ returning as a 403 Forbidden.

This seems to be standard for all Magento installs, but I want to change this, and not have a 403 returned for requests to /media/.

How can I do this?

EDIT: (adding further information and reason for it)

I want /media/ to not be a 403, so that I can redirect requests to /media/ to /media/index.html.

I thought this redirect would be easy once the 403 was resolved, but unfortunately it is not. e.g.

RewriteRule ^$ /index.html [L,NC,R=301]

does not redirect /media/ at all, and the usual “Index of /” is displayed.

SOLUTION: add DirectoryIndex to the htaccess file

Thanks
Paul

Answer 1

Put .htaccess to your media/ dir with following contents:

Options All +Indexes
DirectoryIndex index.html