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403 Forbidden Error on Mac OS X Localhost

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Problem

I set up Web Sharing in System Preferences on Mac OS X 10.6 and clicked the link it gave me there. Unfortuantely, Apache gave me this 403 error: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /~myusername/index.html on this server. Access log displays: Error log displays: Curiously enough, accessing…

Error Output

10.0.1.2 - - [30/Jun/2010:16:25:15 -0700] "GET /~myusername/ HTTP/1.1" 403 210

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Fix for: 403 Forbidden Error on Mac OS X Localhost

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Apple has a support document for this problem. Fixing the issue involves creating a file (yourusername being the account short name, e.g. – it's usually the name of your home folder in ) with the following contents: Afterwards, run and restart Apach…

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