Web sharing not working

Hello,

A few weeks ago when I did a clean install of 10.5.0 I found that web sharing wasn't working at all. Whenever I tried to access localhost/~myaccount apache returned a Forbidden access error message.

I was suggested to create a myaccount.conf file in /etc/apache2/users/ .. I did and nothing happened, the problem persisted.

Now with 10.5.1 I expected this to be fixed, but that didn't happen either. Instead I tried to create a new user account in my computer and then found, to my astonishment, that web sharing worked. I even compared the user.conf file for that account with my user.conf and the only difference was the directory of course (/Users/useraccount***/Sites) .. all other arguments were the same.

So.. I have no idea what is going on here!! I wouldn't want to go through the hassle of creating a new user account and migrate all my settings to the new one...

 

I compared the access permissions of my Site's folder with the Site's flder of the test user I created (where Web sharing did work) and the permissions are the same:

Unix permissions: read for all (user+group+others)
ACL permissions:
owner r+w
group (staff) r only
others r only

 

Thanks but I already tried that. Not exactly as that user explains, since I used the Terminal.. but the overall effect was the same. And It didn't fix it