How to set homepage?

Typically /Library/Web Server/Documents is where the home page for your "entire" computer is served from.

Each user can also have a personal home page and it would go in the "Sites" folder inside their home folder. The URL to reach a user's personal home page will be:

http://your.computer.name/~userID
or
http://localhost/~userID

Substitue the actual user ID for "userID" and note the "~" tilde in front of the userID.

If you want to change the locations of either a user's Sites folder or the computers /Library/Web Server/Documents then you'll have to learn a little about Apache web server administration, and look at modifying /etc/httpd/httpd.conf and or /etc/httpd/users/<username>.conf

Steve

Sounds like perhaps the "Sites" folder in you home folder has incorrect permissions. Ther perms on "Sites" is a little different from most other folders in your home. Here's what mine shows in Terminal:

iMacHerman:~ steve$ ls -lad Sites

drwxr-xr-x 5 steve steve 170 Dec 23 2004 Sites

Specifically, Group and Other need read and execute access on the folder. This should fix it if it's not right:

chmod 755 /Users/youruserid/Sites

Subfolders inside "Sites" will need read/execute for Group/Other just like the Sites folder.

The html files, images, etc. inside Sites or subfolders also need read access by Group and Other. For example, this will set the correct perms on "index.html":

chmod 644 /Users/youruserid/Sites/index.html

Steve

Maybe I'm reading the original query differently, but why not go to Safari Menu>Preferences>Home Page and put in whatever web site you want? I just switched my home page yesterday that way. Of course, other browsers would differ somewhat but the principle is the same.

Although it may have been easy or slightly less confusing to get web sharing up and running in OS 9 I think you'll find that the Apache web server that comes with OS X is an "industrial strength" web server.

You should be able to go here to begin reading about how to administer it:

file:///Library/Documentation/Services/apache/index.html.html

Steve

[Edit] the above link doesn't seem to be live, but you ought to be able to copy/paste it into your browser or simply look in your local /Library/Documentation/Services/apache folder and you'll find the Apache documentation in html format.