permissions error with localhost

Asked Sep 07 '13 at 00:09

Active Sep 07 '13 at 00:32

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My httpd.conf file looks like this

    <Directory "/Users/username/Sites/">
    Options Indexes MultiViews
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    </Directory>

When I open up localhost on a browser it displays, "It Works!" but when I do localhost/~username I get the error 403 forbidden you don't have permission to access /~username/ on this server any ideas on how to fix this, or what is causing it?

edited Sep 07 '13 at 00:32

Édouard Lopez

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asked Sep 07 '13 at 00:09

John Smith

which OS/distribution are you using? Did you look online, it sound like a common issue. – Édouard Lopez Sep 07 '13 at 00:17
I am using Mountain Lion and I have looked and none of them seem to be working – John Smith Sep 07 '13 at 00:17
did you read [Per-user web directories](https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/public_html.html) ? – Édouard Lopez Sep 07 '13 at 00:26
did you enable `mod_userdir` module? – Édouard Lopez Sep 07 '13 at 00:27
Step 1 would be to read the error log -- this will tell you if it's a filesystem permissions issue (permission denied) or a server configuration issue. – covener Sep 07 '13 at 00:36

permissions error with localhost

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