Title: Help With autoindex Error, please.
Last modified: April 12, 2022

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# Help With autoindex Error, please.

 *  [whyiotta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whyiotta/)
 * (@whyiotta)
 * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-autoindex-error-please/)
 * Hello,
 * I keep seeing this error when checking my web server error log at bluehost. It
   is occuring on a regular basis. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 * `[Mon Apr 11 01:20:30.009669 2022] [autoindex:error] [pid 551473:tid 23074083841792][
   client 138.201.249.61:0] AH01276: Cannot serve directory /home2/drumrol3/public_html/
   wp-includes/: No matching DirectoryIndex (index.html.var,index.htm,index.html,
   index.shtml,index.xhtml,index.wml,index.perl,index.pl,index.plx,index.ppl,index.
   cgi,index.jsp,index.js,index.jp,index.php4,index.php3,index.php,index.phtml,default.
   htm,default.html,home.htm,index.php5,Default.html,Default.htm,home.html) found,
   and server-generated directory index forbidden by Options directive, referer:
   www.google.com`

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 *  Moderator [threadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/threadi/)
 * (@threadi)
 * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-autoindex-error-please/#post-15553062)
 * Looks like someone is trying to access your wp-includes directory from Google.
   Of course, that makes no sense. Check Google to see if you can actually find 
   the URL there. You can do this, for example, by searching here:
 * `inurl:example.com/wp-includes`
 * where example.com is of course your URL.
 * Unfortunately, you cannot prevent this. You could try to ask Google to exclude
   the URL, e.g. by adding the following entry to robots.txt:
 * `Disallow: /wp-includes`
 * Or via the Google Search Console.
 *  Thread Starter [whyiotta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whyiotta/)
 * (@whyiotta)
 * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-autoindex-error-please/#post-15555881)
 * Thanks very much for your reply. I will take those actions. Cheers!

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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [whyiotta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whyiotta/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-autoindex-error-please/#post-15555881)
 * Status: not resolved

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