stevenray

Now it seems to be working as it is supposed to be – podz had it from the beginning – Matt at SuccessfulHosting handled it even as I slept – very cool, those kids in Texas………..

got the following from Matt H this morning:

“The error message “Directry Listing denied” means that IIS is not going to list the contents of the directory. It has nothing to do with your script working or not. Since wordpress and phpbb are both PHP, they use a file called “index.php” as a default file, and IIS must be set to recognize this in the “Directory Indexes” option. The directory index specifies which file to try to open when you specify a folder, eg http://insight-power-systems.com/wordpress/ (no file specified). I have added index.php so that message should go away.”

“Please let me know if you have any further questions.”
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Best Regards,

Matt H.

http://SuccessfulHosting.com

the point being that it is indeed a common IIS phenomena rather than a WordPress failing and a Wordpres install might very well require this particular step if you are on a IIS server

I’ve seen a lot of posts re this particular roadblock for newbies while I was searching for an answer on the web – so I hope this helps – the famous 5 minute install could have been 5.5 minutes if I had just known this………………..

and thanks podz and the rest of you who responded so quickly

StevenRay Petersen

That’s encouraging re the windows server – antbody have any idea at all how to del with the

Directory Listing Denied/This Virtual Directory does not allow contents to be listed

response ?

StevenRay