Permission Issue and Directory Index Error in Dockerized CodeIgniter Project

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I have created a new CodeIgniter project and am in the process of setting up a container for it. However, after creating the container, I am encountering the following issue:

Forbidden

You don’t have permission to access this resource. Upon reviewing the logs, I noticed the following error message: AH01276: Cannot serve directory /var/www/html/: No matching DirectoryIndex (index.php,index.html) found, and server-generated directory index forbidden by the Options directive. I am seeking assistance with this problem, as I am new to Docker.

my docker file

# Use the official PHP image as the base image

FROM php:7.4-apache

# Set the working directory inside the container

WORKDIR /var/www/html

# Copy the CodeIgniter project files to the container

COPY . .

# Install required PHP extensions and enable Apache modules

RUN docker-php-ext-install mysqli pdo pdo_mysql

RUN a2enmod rewrite

# Expose port 80 for Apache

EXPOSE 80
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Is there any index.php or index.html in the container in tha mentioned folder? Have you checked that?

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