Rick Hurst - Freelance Web developer. Bristol, England.

when trying to access web pages served by apache on mac osx (tiger) from my user directory in the format localhost/~rick, I was getting a 403 error: You don’t have permission to access /~rick/

I tried changing the permissions but no joy. As I had this working previously I realised that it might actually be to do with filevault, which I activated recently. googling around it looks like it is filevault causing this.

I haven’t bothered trying to resolve this, as I was only using the users directory because I couldn’t be bothered to look into setting up virtual hosts to run multiple sites (I will now!)

update: this is a very good how-to for setting up virtual hosts.

I now have a directory outside my users directory containing all the sites I want to use with apache, with corresponding virtual hosts such as sandbox.test.site

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