[snitty]

Okay, I know this is fool proof, but acording to someone, I am a better fool.

I put an "index.html" that I wrote quickly in the Sites folder of the current active user. I already had web sharing on, and it gave me the apache "you installed apache" page. I have tried shutting of web sharing and starting it up again. The only thing I haven't tried is shutting down apache, loging out (or shutting down) and starting apache again. I should try that. But the only way I can get my index.html to show up is if I put it in /Library/WebServer/Documents

Any help would be great! Thanks

Ben

[johann]

the files you put in the user Sites folder get published to http://www.yourdomain.com/~username

so every user can just put and publish... very easy and cool

[snitty]

Originally posted by johann:
<STRONG>the files you put in the user Sites folder get published to http://www.yourdomain.com/~username
so every user can just put and publish... very easy and cool</STRONG>

Ahhh, I see! in my case however, it would be http://999.999.999.999/~username/ feel the love of the IP address

Originally posted by johann:
<STRONG>the files you put in the user Sites folder get published to http://www.yourdomain.com/~username

so every user can just put and publish... very easy and cool</STRONG>

I am trying to do a simple web page on an extra OSX machine for our intranet and When I try http://999.999.999.999/~username/ I get

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /~username/index.html on this server.


Apache/1.3.14 Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 80


I even setup a test user that had read and write in their sites folder and I still get the same message.....


Also if I put my own index.html into the /Library/WebServer/Documents folder then I get...

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /index.html on this server.


Apache/1.3.14 Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 80

What am I missing???

[BrentN]

Originally posted by &lt;not web sharing&gt;:
<STRONG>

I am trying to do a simple web page on an extra OSX machine for our intranet and When I try http://999.999.999.999/~username/ I get

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /~username/index.html on this server.


Apache/1.3.14 Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 80


I even setup a test user that had read and write in their sites folder and I still get the same message.....


Also if I put my own index.html into the /Library/WebServer/Documents folder then I get...

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /index.html on this server.


Apache/1.3.14 Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 80

What am I missing???</STRONG>

Its not user access to the file that's important - its whether or not the webserver has access to the file. The way that is typically done is to make the files world-readable (i.e. chmod a+r ).