WordPress install error: Directory Listing Denied

Tim Huffam — Wed, 24 May 2006 00:23:00 GMT

After installing WordPress (WinXP, IIS 5, MySQL 5.0.21, PHP 5.1.4) and going through the install, after logging in for the first time I got the error: "Directory Listing Denied".

This was because IIS had not been configured to look for a default document called "index.php".

To fix:

Go into IIS admin
Right click on the root dir where wordpress resides
Select the Documents tab
Click on Add...
Enter index.php and click OK.

Then you should just need to refresh your WordPress page in the browser.

HTH
Tim

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WordPress install error: Directory Listing Denied