403 Access Forbidden when viewing site in browser

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The most likely reason that you are seeing the 403 error, or sometimes a directory listing, instead of your home page is because you do not have a properly named index page. The filenames that the server looks for as the first page of your site are index.html, index.htm, default.html, default.htm, index.phtml, and index.cgi. If the server does not find one of these in your www folder, it will return a 403 error as it does not know what page to serve up as your home page.