apache on osx doesn't like filevault
This post was written 6 years ago.
Wed, 12 Oct 2005
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
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
This post was written 6 years ago, which in internet time is really, really old. This means that what is written above, and the links contained within, may now be obsolete, inaccurate or wildly out of context, so please bear that in mind :)
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