hello a bit of a noob question here, but here it goes.. ok so i want to host a small test site from my mac book pro running 10.6, but when i give out my address to my mac they only get a page that says "It Works!" yet i have my site files in the user/sites folder... is there something i'm missing here? or is there another folder i need to put the server files into?
How to access....?
- Thread starter Yonnie
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If they are accessing the site locally... http://your-ip-address-or-dns-name/~xyz
where xyz is the short username of your user that is using web sharing.
If you don't add /~xyz to the address your users will see pages from /Library/WebServer/Documents - where the documents weren't changed I imagine...
So either make them use the address with your username, or if no one will ever need to use the main webserver for anything other than your stuff, you could use /Library/WebServer/Documents as well (or instead).
where xyz is the short username of your user that is using web sharing.
If you don't add /~xyz to the address your users will see pages from /Library/WebServer/Documents - where the documents weren't changed I imagine...
So either make them use the address with your username, or if no one will ever need to use the main webserver for anything other than your stuff, you could use /Library/WebServer/Documents as well (or instead).