Movable Type Knowledge Base: 403 on View Site

Question

When clicking View Site from within Movable Type, I get a 403 Forbidden error.

Answer

In most cases, this means that no index file has been generated in your weblog directory yet. Follow the same diagnostics as outlined in 404 on View Site to troubleshoot this error.

If Movable Type is generating an index file correctly in the weblog directory, and you are still seeing this error, then your server may not be configured correctly to display the index file as the default page for that directory.

In other words, if you can browse to the page using this URL:

http://www.example.com/weblog/index.html

but this URL gives you the 403 error:

http://www.example.com/weblog/

then your server is not configured to use the index.html as the default page for that directory. You should contact your host or server administrator to resolve this issue.

If you're the administrator, and working with a Windows server, see Register index.html as a home document in IIS.

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