Web sharing with Apache: Forbidden

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Web sharing with Apache: Forbidden

My Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Upgrade broke local web sharing of my ~/Sites/ directories.

I googled around and followed the advice in http://support.apple.com/kb/TA25038 , which matches my problem closely. However, that solution does not repair the problem.

My Sites directory and permissions:

v21837:~ drf$ ls -la ~/Sites

total 7160

drwxr-xr-x 19 drf staff 646 Aug 7 14:06 .

drwxr-xr-x+ 197 drf staff 6698 Aug 6 17:44 ..

-rw-r--r--@ 1 drf staff 12292 Aug 3 21:26 .DS_Store

-rw-r--r-- 1 drf staff 0 Feb 2 2008 .localized

-rw-r--r-- 1 drf staff 3 Aug 7 14:06 00Junk.txt

...

Safari on http://localhost/~drf/00Junk.txt:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /~drf/00Junk.txt on this server.

Safari on a non-existent file:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /~drf/Junk.txtq on this server.

Apache-OTHER, OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Aug 7, 2012 11:25 AM

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drf5n Author

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Aug 7, 2012 12:33 PM in response to drf5n

I solved my problem. I had cut and pasted the information into the /etc/apache2/users/UserName.conf file from a web page and used non-matching up/down quote marks like this:

rather than matching ones like:

Apache seemed to parse it OK with 'apachectl -t', but with the up/down quotation marks, it did not enable my directory, apparently taking the quotes as literal parts of the directory name.

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Mar 1, 2013 6:30 AM in response to drf5n

Took inspiration from @drf5n and went back to UserName.conf to realiza that had the username starting with a capital where the directory is actually all lowecase. Many thanks

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