title: CodeIgniter error 403
body: <p>I'm a complete beginner in CodeIgniter, Frameworks in general, and I tried Laravel and CakePHP but both are very complex to install (for me) so now I've downloaded CI and it looks pretty simple except for this access denied error.</p>
  
  <p>The error is the default Firefox 403(access denied) error. It says:
  <code>You don't have permission to access the requested object. It's either read-protected or not readable by the server.</code></p>
  
  <p>This happens when I go to <code>localhost/codeigniter/application</code></p>
  
  <p>My base URL: <code>http://localhost/codeigniter/application</code>. I don't know why I set it like that but it seemed logical.</p>
  
  <p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> After I edit the htaccess file to make it  look like this:
  `    RewriteEngine On</p>
  
  <pre><code>RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.PHP/$1 [L]    
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>, it gave me another 403 error (which isn't the default Firefox error) and it simply says "Directory access is forbidden".</p>