Comments on: Setup Apache on Mac OSX Leopard

By: Laura

Laura — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 23:46:22 +0000

hallo, I’m really new with php and I’m trying to setup Apache on my mac, in order to create some test files. I had troubles in seeing a seample file I created in html on my browser and I really don’t understand what’s the matter: I create the file .html and put it into Sites folder, but when I try to open http://127.0.0.1/~myusername/file_name.html it seems not to find it! Text precisely says: Error 404 – The requested URL /~myusername/file_name.html was not found on this server.
Web sharing is active and when I test index.htm into Sites folder, as well, with http://localhost/. it works. So, what could be my problem? I’m using OS Snow Leopard. Thank you for any suggestion.

By: sp

sp — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 07:07:25 +0000

thanks, it worked

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:50:00 +0000

Can I use this to tunnel through the Chinese Firewall? If so do I need to set up another server outside China?

By: Anibal Estrella

Anibal Estrella — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:23:00 +0000

hi, i tried your tips but i still get the “Forbidden

You don’t have permission to access /~user/ on this server.” message.. any ideas?
thankyou!

By: manny89

manny89 — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 00:19:00 +0000

Thank you…. this was helpful and got me over that annoying 403 error..!

By: guest

guest — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:03:54 +0000

how do you make apache non-local?

By: williebillie12

williebillie12 — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:51:45 +0000

Thank you. After upgrading my HDD and copying over my previous img my 'localhost' ceased to resolve correctly. Your final tip solved all my issues. Thank you so much.

By: Jose Peres

Jose Peres — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:39:25 +0000

Very good doc – Objective, easy to understand.

By: Jose Peres

Jose Peres — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:39:25 +0000

Very good doc – Objective, easy to understand.

By: Theo

Theo — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:18:52 +0000

I was working with raw HTML and javascript just by itself. Not in a rails or java app. When working off the filesystem, local file references don't 404 in firebug and there are some other oddities that seem to happen. For example, code that keys off of http or https doesn't work because the protocol is file://

That and I was bored.

By: Brent

Brent — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:04:27 +0000

So what are you doing with Apache locally, or was this posted out of sheer boredom?