Web sharing not working (Forbidden error)

[andymac2210]

I posted this on the apple support forums a few days ago, but so far no help whatsoever from anyone there.

So I thought I'd try mac rumours, since people here tend to be more helpful

Basically web sharing isn't working (which is quite annoying being that I need to test sites I make on mobile devices without uploading to a server).
Trying to host locally with web sharing doesn't want to work, it USED to work fine.
Lion 10.7.2.


http://localhost/~myusername doesnt work with web sharing turned on.
http://192.168.0.102/ (my local IP on the network) also fails to work.

It won't open locally or from other computers on the network.

I tried the apple fix here http://support.apple.com/kb/TA25038

Doesn't help.


The exact error I get is
Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /index.html on this server.
Apache/2.2.20 (Unix) DAV/2 Server at 192.168.0.102 Port 80

 

[maflynn]

Do you have a Sites folder in your home folder.

I noticed that with Lion, (doing a clean install) I had no Sites folder which is the default home folder for the web service to use

 

[andymac2210]

Do you have a Sites folder in your home folder.

I noticed that with Lion, (doing a clean install) I had no Sites folder which is the default home folder for the web service to use

Yeah, you can 'create' a sites folder directly from the web sharing bit of the sys prefs.
It automatically dumps that template from iweb in there.

For some reason I can access that, but as soon as I strip it out and put my own site in there I get the same error as above.


EDIT- oh and the 'sites' folder is the default 'personal website folder', as opposed to the 'computer' website folder located at Library/webserver/documents.

(Neither works with anything other than the default iweb template, but both work with that, what the heck?)