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Article:		Apache Web-Serving with Mac OS X, Part 4
Subject:		editing /etc/httpd/users/<username>.conf breaks web access to Sites folder
Date:		2002-03-11 19:15:38
From:		grosventre
Response to: editing /etc/httpd/users/.conf breaks web access to Sites folder
Yes, there is an index.html fil. The error_log entries relevant are: [Mon Mar 11 19:55:59 2002] [error] [client 199.104.80.94] File does not exist: /Users/michaelh/public_html/ and [Mon Mar 11 19:56:58 2002] [error] [client 199.104.80.94] File does not exist: /Users/michaelh/public_html/index.html After various incarnations, the username.conf file now looks like this: <Directory "/Users/michaelh/Sites/"> Options Includes Indexes Multiviews AllowOverride None Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from 127.0.0.1 </Directory> ScriptAlias /~michaelh/cgi-bin/ "/Users/michaelh/Sites/cgi-bin/" Pretty much per one of your examples The error page: Not Found The requested URL /~michaelh/index.html was not found on this server. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apache/1.3.22 Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 80 and if that's not a 404 error, I haven't been configuring apache on FreeBSD boxes for the past five years :) I definitely appreciate these articles,. as they help make testing my cgi work much easier locally. Thanks for any ideas you may come up with, Michael

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• editing /etc/httpd/users/<username>.conf breaks web access to Sites folder
  2002-03-13 20:10:28  Morbus Iff | [View]
  
  
  Whoa, where did this "public_html" directory come from, as per your error message? "public_html" is the equivalent of "Sites", only for other distributions like Redhat, SuSE, and so on and so forth - its kinda like the default user website directory.
  
  Open up your httpd.conf file and do a search for the UserDir directive. That should be set to "Sites", not "public_html". If it's not, do a search on the rest of the conf file for "public_html" - that's what's causing your problem.
• editing /etc/httpd/users/<username>.conf breaks web access to Sites folder
  2002-03-14 10:50:31  grosventre [View]
  
  
  Well,
  at one point, after breaking my httpd.conf, I had to restore it from the httd.conf.bak that was included in my apache. Following your prompt, I found the lines:
  
  <IfModule mod_userdir.c>
  UserDir public_html
  </IfModule>
  
  After replacing the public_html, with Sites, as well as a couple of other tweaks to httpd.conf with respect to the other directories, my Sites folders behave identically to my /Library/Webserver/ folder.
  
  I suppose the httpd.conf.bak, was a generic Apache backup file(?), using the public_html directory , instead of Sites, or htdocs (my accusatomed Free BSD default.
  
  Mystery solved. Thanks!