friendly urls giving 403/404 error for custom directories

[arineod]

Well, I installed mybb and enabled the friendly urls and all is well except now my custom folders in the same directory with other php things installed are not accessible using a link like this www.mysite.com/custom/ if I go to a url like that, I get 403/404 but if I got to www.mysite.com/custom/index.php it will work. Do I have to add something to the .htaccess file for links to those directories to work without actually specifying the actual index.php?


update: I had DirectoryIndex portal.php in my htaccess file for portal and that is why

[frostschutz]

This user has been denied support.

You can specify multiple files for DirectoryIndex and it will use the first file that is present

DirectoryIndex portal.php index.php index.html index.htm