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I had a hard time solveing this one and I saw a few other posts about it, so I thought I would pass on what I have learned.

I had a file index.html in my Users/myname/Sites folder, but when I went to 127.0.0.1/~myname/ I got a 404 error (File Not Found).

This happened because in my config.bak file the code said...

<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
UserDir public_html
</IfModule>

when it needed to say...

<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
UserDir Sites
</IfModule>

So when I overwrote my original config file with the provided config.bak I picked up this problem.

Because 127.0.0.1/~myname/ was looking for a folder named "public_html" rather than the Mac OS X default one of "Sites" as refered to in these tutorials.

So change "public_html" to "Sites" in your config file and stop and start Apache and then 127.0.0.1/~myname/ will default to your Sites folder.