That was there, but the LoadModule for mod_userdir.so was commented out.  Funny 
the apple kb article didn't mention that.

Now it works.

Thank you!

Extra credit.  I still can't add a static site under 
/Library/Webserver/Documents.  Seems the only file apache will serve is the 
index.html file.

Jeff

On Jan 9, 2011, at 5:30 PM, Pascal Robert wrote:

> Did you enable the UserDir directive? AKA:
> 
>  UserDir Sites
> 
> in httpd.conf (or another Apache conf file)?
> 
> On OS X client, this is done with the following file:
> 
>  /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf
> 
>> Hello,
>>  this is really an apache question, but thought I'd give it a try here since 
>> I can't seem to find anything that helps elsewhere.  I'd like to be able to 
>> server static websites from personal accounts (or even from any subdirectory 
>> under /Library/WebServer/Documents) on my snow leopard server box.  However, 
>> if I try to access such a website, I get the Access Forbidden error.  I 
>> tried doing what is suggested here:
>> 
>> http://support.apple.com/kb/TA25038
>> 
>> for example I have a netbrackets user account so I added a netbrackets.conf 
>> file to /etc/apache2/users with the following contents :
>> 
>> <Directory "/Users/netbrackets/Sites/">
>>   Options Indexes MultiViews
>>   AllowOverride None
>>   Order allow,deny
>>   Allow from all
>> </Directory>
>> 
>> restarted apache and went to 
>> 
>> http://www.netbrackets.com/~netbrackets
>> 
>> but no luck.  
>> 
>> Any ideas?
>> Thanks,
>> Jeff
>> 
>> 
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