# 403 Forbidden! can't find index! HELP

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/403-forbidden-cant-find-index-help/84519>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 5, 2007, 4:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/403-forbidden-cant-find-index-help/84519 "2007-02-05T16:31:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![james](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@james](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/james)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2007, 4:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/403-forbidden-cant-find-index-help/84519/1 "2007-02-05T16:31:41Z")

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I am installing rails on a hosting server ([aplus.net](http://aplus.net)) where I have  
very limited access (no root access, I’m limited to my /home/  
usernames/ dir). They had ruby installed but no rubygems or rails.

I got rubygems and rails up and running, I created a new app in  
[www.mydomain.com/testruby](http://www.mydomain.com/testruby), but when I go there I get a 403 - Forbidden  
error:

“Forbidden  
You don’t have permission to access /testruby/ on this server.  
You may need to create an index.html page or enable the directory  
browsing by creating an .htaccess file containing “Options +Indexes”.”

The [aplus.net](http://aplus.net) server seems to be running:  
Apache 1.3.36  
CGI 3.10

I checked my CHMOD permissions on the dir and they seem to be set  
correctly.

Man, I felt like I was so close to getting this running I could taste  
it!

I’m new to this server stuff, could someone please help me?

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**Author:** ![james](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@james](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/james)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 11:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/403-forbidden-cant-find-index-help/84519/2 "2007-03-24T23:34:04Z")

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Hey James,

Did you get any further on this? I am stuck trying to install rails:

gem install rails --include-dependencies  
ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError)  
Permission denied - connect(2)(Errno::EACCES)

I am on aplus as well. I am hosting my other clients apps on planet  
argon and it works nicely.

Thanks,

Scott