This Virtual Directory does not allow contents to be listed.

  • wadco911

    (@wadco911)


    16 years ago

    On ixwebhosting.com, have one wp site up and running, have installed another wp site, but get the message Directory listing denied. This Virtual Directory does not allow contents to be listed. Have done everything I know how to do, which isn’t that much. Wasted the last 6 hours looking for answers. Now I give up. Any help? My site comes up when I put in https://www.appleseedmusical.com/wp-login.php, but when I click on the admin link, it gives me This Virtual Directory does not allow contents to be listed.

    I’m on the brink of madness. Can you help?

    Bill Davidson

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  • stvwlf

    (@stvwlf)

    I just went to https://www.appleseedmusical.com/wp-admin/ and was presented with a login screen

    I get the same error on IX WebHosting and can get to my admin screen as mentioned above but as soon as I try to write a post I get the same error about Virtual Directory does not exist. I tried changing the indexing on the website and can get a listing of the wp-admin dir instead but can’t seem to figure out how to get index.php or other files connected properly.

    I can update an existing post(the default Hell World one but not add new ones and when I try to go to the About page I get the same sort of problem.

    Any help appreciated.
    Mike

    Please let me know if there are other bits of info that can help resolve this.

    Regards,
    Mike

    I just ran into this problem.

    It is not a wordpress issue. It is actually a site host issue.

    What is basically happening is that the site server is looking for a default page to render. In the case of wordpress that file is

    index.php

    Often times that file is not listed as a default page to look for. So the server goes through its list of default pages, and can’t find index.php. So it throws an error.

    The solution is simple. Go into your webhosts control panel, and find where to edit the IIS settings. A subsection of that should be something like “default pages”. Once in there, add the page “index.php” to the list, and you should be golden.

    Cheers!

    Hi,
    Im getting the same error, and my host is ixwebhosting as well. newbie_geek, where within the control panel do you find the IIS settings? I went under “web options” and could not find it. So I tried, adding “index.php” to “directory indexes”, just to try it out, but it did not help.

    Thanks

    So, after I login, for some reason it will not take me to wp-admin/index.php –even though I have added it to my directory indexes (also the logout page is not working either). I can though, manually type in the addresses of the login and admin site and they both seem to run just fine. So for some reason after clicking “log in” it will not direct me to the admin page. I hope my ramblings are not confusing. Any help is much appreciated.

    Thanks,

    Hi Everybody,

    I have made a blog post about how you fix this issue:

    https://mashingthenet.com/2009/09/10/troubleshooting-a-vanilla-wordpress-install-on-a-windows-server/

    Hope this helps.

    Sincerely,

    Christian Adams
    Customer Relations
    IX Web Hosting

    newbie_geek – that did it for me, thanks!

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