Simple apache question (I think)

[georgecrawford]

Hi.

Can someone please explain this.

When I browse to http://127.0.0.1 I get the contents of my Library/Webserver/Documents directory.

Fine.

When I go to http://127.0.0.1/~myusername I get this error:

You don't have permission to access /~myusername/ on this server.

... instead of seeing the contents of my Users/myusername/Sites directory.

Why is this? I'm fairly new to apache and webserving on OS X so I expect there is a simple solution I'm overlooking.

Thanks

 

[profx]

do a get info on your sites directory and make sure is is readable by everyone (in permissions). The webserver must be able to read the contents of the folder to be able to serve it. You will probably want to hit the apply to enclosed items button as well

 

[georgecrawford]

I already tried that. Permissions are wide open!

 

[Darkshadow]

Permissions on your user directory have to be open as well, not just the site directory.

 

[Gabriel Camiro]

You have to tell apache to read contents of directory. modify the conf file.
httpd.conf in /etc/httpd

 

[georgecrawford]

I forgot to mention that it is only MY username which does this - I can see http://127.0.0.1/~anotherusername with no problem.

 

[Gabriel Camiro]

Have you tried using webmin for configuring and running with a gui?
check it out.
www.webmin.com
It is easy to install and works great.

 

[TommyWillB]

Make sure you have an "index.html" (all lower cAsE) file there.

If you don't have directory listings enabled and the default file does not exist, that's what you will see...