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Grace,<div>This is something that perhaps you know, but in its wisdom Apple changed the user name that the web server runs under from www to _www.</div><div>You might need to take a look at the files, and do some chown (change ownership).</div><div> Vince</div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 21, 2009, at 3:29 PM, Grace Hensley wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Dear friends,<br><br>I had a perfectly good pmwiki site running on my mac os x 10.4 laptop and then went and stupidly upgraded to 10.5 leopard, and can't get my local wiki up. Half the problem was finding the right files to read and edit, which is why my problem outlined below is a little bit verbose (perhaps someone will google a similar problem and find your answer).<br><br>For a while I didn't have my website running on <a href="http://localhost/~myname/pmwiki">http://localhost/~myname/pmwiki</a> at all until I turned on my Web Sharing System Preferences. Now, I've been getting a relentless 403 "Forbidden: You don't have permission to access /~myname/pmwiki on this server". I finally found the error message in the /var/log/apache2/error_log file which reads: "Client denied by server configuration: /Users/myname/Sites/pmwiki/"<br><br>I read up on the error, and someone suggested that I merely change "Deny from all" to "Allow from all" the <Directory> block in the /etc/apache2/httpd.conf file. After I stop/start apachectl, and check the log, I get the "Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /Users/myname/Sites/pmwiki/" and the same 403 error. Don't worry, I set the .conf file back again.<br><br>Shouldn't I be doing something else? Is there a Load Module that I should use, or set my Document Root to /Users/myname/Sites/pmwiki or something?<br><br>Any suggestions (other than jumping in the lake) are appreciated.<br>Grace<br>Seattle WA<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">pmwiki-users mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com">pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users">http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users</a></div> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>