Title: secure setup problem
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# secure setup problem

 *  [dan2604](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dan2604/)
 * (@dan2604)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/secure-setup-problem/)
 * Hi,
    I just installed WP on LAMP, using [http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory](http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory):
 * /var/www/index.php (WP index.php)
    /var/www/wordpress (all the WP files except
   index.php)
 * After that I wanted to secure my setup defining my Apache virtual host this way:
 * <VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot /var/www
 * <Directory />
    Order deny,allow Deny for all DirectoryIndex index.php <Files 
   index.php> allow from all </Files> </Directory>
 * <Directory /wordpress>
    Options FollowSymLinks Order allow,deny Allow from all
   </Directory>
 * But it doesn’t work :
 *     ```
       Forbidden
       You don't have permission to access / on this server.
       ```
   
 * If I replace index.php with any index.html, it does work….
    Any idea ?

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 * Last reply from: [dan2604](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dan2604/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/secure-setup-problem/)
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