Thanks for the reply. While I do understand your reply, unfortunately my situation is more complicated than I stated. (I was attempting to keep it simple.)
I've been attempting to run an iTunes applescript that was posted here:
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/scripts07.php?page=1#readdaspodcast
I've used many of the scripts posted there, but this one has been presenting problems. The ReadMe supposedly gives instructions, but unfortunately the script is not working, due to this Apache issue. I don't know a lot about AppleScript, but I opened this one with Script Editor, and I see that the script indeed includes references to "http://127.0.0.1/~" & user_name & "/" -- which you say is not permitted.
I don't know enough about AppleScript (or Apache) to go digging into the script and modify it and make it work. It was posted almost a year ago, and the site is popular, so I find it hard to believe that I'm the first person ever trying to use the script or the first one ever to encounter this problem. Also, I find it hard to believe that the author would have publicly posted a script that didn't work. So I'm assuming it *did* work, when it was first posted. With that in mind, I wonder if changes have been made to Apache, or if the directory listings not being permitted is a change in the way things used to be handled.
When I contacted the author, his reply was:
>>I'm not an Apache expert, but my guess is that the permissions of your SItes folder are not set correctly. I can't really troubleshoot this for you, since it may involve Apache config files and such. Pretty much everything I learned about the Apache web server on the Mac came from this intro article at O'Reilly:
<http://oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2001/12/07/apache.html>
Wish I could be of more assistance. Let me know how you proceed.<<
So I studied that article, as well as other articles I found -- but to no avail. After spending at least 2 hours on this, I wrote him again, letting him know that there is still a problem, but he has not replied. So I spent another hour or 2 doing more digging. What a nightmare!
All I wanted to do was run this AppleScript, but finding answers has proved to be close to impossible.
If anyone has time (and inclination) to look at the script to which I linked above and offer suggestions, I'd really appreciate it. I consider myself a Mac "Power User," but in almost 20 years, this is the most frustrating thing I have ever encountered, as a Mac User.
Thanks.
