Article:		Apache Web-Serving with Mac OS X, Part 4
Subject:		Changing .conf has no effect
Date:		2002-04-23 20:13:02
From:		loopless
I have modified my andrewc.conf file <Directory "/Users/andrewc/Documents/SoftwareDev/Java/RMI/Trim"> Options Indexes MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> to point to a new directory, yet when I enter the http://127.0.0.1/~andrewc/ I keep getting the default user page in the ~/Sites folder. error_log shows,,,,, Processing config directory: /private/etc/httpd/users Processing config file: /private/etc/httpd/users/andrewc.conf The last lines in the error_log are statfs failed because: Permission denied statfs failed because: Permission denied access_log shows 127.0.0.1 - - [23/Apr/2002:20:05:51 -0700] "GET /~andrewc/ HTTP/1.1" 304 - 127.0.0.1 - - [23/Apr/2002:20:05:52 -0700] "GET /~andrewc/images/macosxlogo.gif HTTP/1.1" 200 2829 127.0.0.1 - - [23/Apr/2002:20:05:52 -0700] "GET /~andrewc/images/apache_pb.gif HTTP/1.1" 200 2326 127.0.0.1 - - [23/Apr/2002:20:05:52 -0700] "GET /~andrewc/images/web_share.gif HTTP/1.1" 304 -

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• Changing .conf has no effect
  2002-04-24 20:09:10  Kevin Hemenway | [View]
  
  
  Yup, you're confusing the values of the different config files. Basically, the tilde character (the ~ in ~andrewc/) is magical, and has little to do with the <Directory> defined in your andrewc.conf file. There are a couple of different ways of doing what you want, but the most understand is to use an "Alias", like so:
  
  Alias /~andrewc/ "/Users/andrewc/Documents/SoftwareDev/Java/RMI/Trim"
  
  You'd throw that in your andrewc.conf right above your <Directory> declaration (actually above or below - doesn't make a difference). You also want to make sure that your Documents directory, as well as all the subdirectories leading up to your Trim destination are set for 755 permissions. Otherwise, Apache won't be able to serve documents from that location.
  
  I talk a bit about the "Alias" directive in the recently released Part 6, and will discuss the tilde character and it's magic in part 7 (not yet released).
• Changing .conf has no effect
  2002-04-24 23:26:39  loopless [View]
  
  
  So that's it......got it working now
  Thanks for the great article
  
  Andrew