I just finished a site using Joomla!
While building it, My URL was: [login to view URL]
When I went live ([login to view URL]) I got:
Direct Access to this location is not allowed.
How I went live was to remove /joomla from these 3 in [login to view URL]):
$mosConfig_absolute_path = '/home/content/s/c/h/schearthandhom/html/joomla';
$mosConfig_cachepath = '/home/content/s/c/h/schearthandhom/html/joomla/cache';
$mosConfig_live_site = '[login to view URL]';
Then I moved all contents from my Joomla! folder to my root folder.
Client has a newspaper ad running today, directing people to his site, which doesn't work. Site need to go up today. Job also included letting me know what changes were made in order to access the site.
Also, I'm using the Tribute template from [login to view URL], which was made in 2005. It's possible that it is not compatible with Joomla! 1.5.