Ok, this is the third time I have had this problem. You would think that after the first time I would have fixed all the other machines I work on. But I didn’t and I had to struggle to figure out what was going on again. If you allow Web Sharing on your Leopard machine, and you make use of the users private sites, you might have run into this problem.

It’s not so much of a problem with Apache not working properly, it just denies you access ( Error 403: Access Forbidden ) to ANY public user directory. After looking around the net AGAIN I came across this thread on the Apple Discussions board.

Basically, the fix to the whole problem is just to copy the original user config files from the old apache directory to the new apache2 directory. Open up the Terminal and type in the following code:

sudo cp /private/etc/httpd/users/* /private/etc/apache2/users/

Restart Web Sharing and you should be good.

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