Configuring Apache

1. The default system document root is still found at - http://localhost/ The files are shared in the filing system at -

   /Library/WebServer/Documents/
   

2. The other web root directory which is missing by default is the ~/Sites folder in the User account.

3. Check that you have a username.conf filed under:

   /etc/apache2/users/
   

   If you don’t (very likely), then create one named by the short username of the account with the suffix .conf, it's location and permissions/ownership is best tackled by using the Terminal:

   [~/LPPbook(master)]$ ls -l /etc/apache2/users/
   total 40
   -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  143 15 feb  2010 casiano.conf
   

4. [~/LPPbook(master)]$ cat /etc/apache2/users/casiano.conf 
   <Directory "/Users/casiano/Sites/">
       Options Indexes MultiViews
       AllowOverride None
       Order allow,deny
       Allow from all
   </Directory>
   

5. Permissions on the file should be:

   -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  298 Jun 28 16:47 username.conf
   

6. Restart Apache for the new file to be read:

   sudo apachectl restart
   

7. Then this user level document root will be viewable at:

   http://localhost/~username/