[mp2] DirectoryIndex issues

[Matthew Lineen]

I've been trying to track down why the DirectoryIndex under Apache2+MP2 
isn't working with the following configuration.  From Google and 
listserv searching, the only suggestion I found was to add a 
"RedirectMatch permanent (.*)/$ $1/index.html" to my config, but this 
doesn't seem like a good solution and others have reported experiencing 
the same problem.

Is there a simple fix to this httpd.conf file; is this a known issue 
with Apache2+MP2?  Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Matthew
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This URL works correctly:
    http://ip.ip.ip.ip/testnomp2/
This URL returns a 403 Forbidden:
    http://ip.ip.ip.ip/testmp2/
and reports "Directory index forbidden by rule: /home/www/testmp2/" in 
the error_log.

This URL works correctly:
    http://ip.ip.ip.ip/testmp2/index.pl
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Apache/2.0.53 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.53 OpenSSL/0.9.7e mod_perl/1.999.21 
Perl/v5.8.6 configured

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% cat /usr/local/etc/apache2/httpd.conf
User    apache
Group   apache
Listen  ip.ip.ip.ip:80
# -- modules --
LoadModule apreq_module modules/mod_apreq.so
# -- logging --
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common
ErrorLog  /var/apache2/logs/error_log
# -- basic restrictions --
<Directory />
        Options None +FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Order Deny,Allow
        Deny from all
</Directory>
# -- virtual host --
<VirtualHost ip.ip.ip.ip:80>
        CustomLog /var/apache2/logs/access_log common
        Alias /testnomp2 /home/www/testnomp2
        <Directory /home/www/testnomp2/>
                DirectoryIndex index.html
                Allow from all
        </Directory>
        Alias /testmp2 /home/www/testmp2
        <Directory /home/www/testmp2/>
                DirectoryIndex index.pl
                Options +ExecCGI
                SetHandler perl-script
                PerlHandler ModPerl::Registry
                Order Allow,Deny
                Allow from all
        </Directory>
</VirtualHost>
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% pwd
/home/www
% ls -laR
drwxr-xr-x  2 apache  apache  512 Feb 24 10:33 testmp2
drwxr-xr-x  2 apache  apache  512 Feb 24 10:33 testnomp2
./testmp2:
-rwxr-xr-x  1 apache  apache  118 Feb 24 10:33 index.pl
./testnomp2:
-rw-r--r--  1 apache  apache   30 Feb 24 10:33 index.html