Mac OS X Leopard: Web Sharing Troubles: “Forbidden”
Posted by Daniel in Apple, CodeIgniterOct 28th, 2007 | 72 responsesIf you’ve installed Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 already and you use the built in apache server “Web Sharing” you will need to follow these steps before your web server works again. If you’ve tried to visit a page on your local server, you will be greeted by this message:
Forbidden (403)
You don't have permission to access /~danielerrante/ezslide/ on this server.
Leopard fails to copy the settings from apache in Tiger to apache2 in Leopard. Therefore, you will need to follow these simple steps to get your server up again.
If you can vaguely remember creating a configuration file when you first set up Tiger called yourusername.conf, you will need to do that in apache2′s /etc/apache2/users/ folder and add the following to that file:
<Directory "/Users/danielerrante/Sites/">
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
Replace danielerrante with your username. Or, you can do all that by copying and pasting one line in terminal:
sudo cp /private/etc/httpd/users/* /private/etc/apache2/users/
Next, you will need to /etc/apache2/httpd.conf and enable PHP5. To do this, navigate to this line:
#LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so
Uncomment that line by removing the pound sign.
Last step: Restart your web server by going to the system preferences, uncheck web sharing, then check it again so it restarts.
You’re done!
Source: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1187457&tstart=15
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Right on. Thanks for posting this, saved me a lot of time poking around. Seems like a bit of an oversight on Apple’s part…
Thanks for the feedback, Jim. I spent a lot of time setting up the apache server on my mac the first time around, and it took a while to find a solution for the same problem in Leopard.
You’re a lifesaver. I was trying to work out how to fix this for what seems like an age.
I should add that I had to do one thing differently, though. I installed Leopard with an Archive and Install and so didn’t have a /private/etc/httpd/users/ folder to copy. I had a backup of my Tiger install on a Firewire drive so I had to go to that and copy it in. Once I did that it worked fine. The rest of the steps were the same.
Thanks again.
Thanks Daniel, that’s sorted me out. I agree with Jim too, Apple could have explained a bit more here as it does say in Web Sharing what you’re personal website address is.
Thanks for this tip! I was just figuring out what happened to my Sites folder
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Thanks – I agree this is a life saver.
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thanks
Wow. Thanks, and, like [post 8] says, you only need to go to the command line to fix this problem.
Thank you! That was exactly what I needed. The Terminal line was definitely helpful. The only thing was that the httpd.conf wasn’t letting me save, so I had to copy it to the Desktop, edit, save, then drag back, and Authenticate. Thanks!
You are a lifesaver!! I have a Uni assignment due tomorrow and so I decided to install Leopard … as you do. Disaster until I came across your page. PHP now back up and working as before. Thanks a million
Thank you!!! Very strange that Leopard did this…
Hey, thanks for putting this up. I had the same problem.
Thanks a lot!!! You saved me hours! I guess Apple should ass this to their “Leopard Drop-In DVD”!
Thanks – a great help. I used BBedit for httpd.conf once I knew what the solution was.
Thanks for this tip!!
Much thanks! This tip worked like a charm.
Daniel:
Thanks. I hope you (or somebody more knowledgeable than me) is still monitoring this post. I went to Terminal and pasted in: sudo cp /private/etc/httpd/users/* /private/etc/apache2/users/ just like instructed.
Terminal asked for my password, which I supplied and Terminal responded with “Macintosh:~ mark$”
That was it. I expected to need to “Next, you will need to /etc/apache2/httpd.conf and enable PHP5″, whatever that means, but there was nothing to navigate to and remove a # sign from.
I went ahead and restarted web sharing, and it seems to work, but I’m fearful I’ve missed a step.
Can you advise me?
Thanks.
Mark @19:
>I expected to need to “Next, you will need to /etc/apache2/httpd.conf and enable PHP5″, whatever that means, but there was nothing to navigate to and remove a # sign from.
He means, “Next, you will need to *edit* /etc/apache…”, which is a text file and should contain the line he references. Verbs are good.
HTH
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[...] If you’ve upgraded from Tiger to Leopard, the chances are good that Web Sharing, the personal web server available to you on your Mac, will not work in Leopard. This will result in you getting “403 Forbidden” errors when you try to visit your site. Fortunately, there is a solution. To read about the solution, you can read about it here. [...]
[...] If you’ve upgraded from Tiger to Leopard, the chances are good that Web Sharing, the personal web server available to you on your Mac, will not work in Leopard. This will result in you getting “403 Forbidden” errors when you try to visit your site. Fortunately, there is a solution. To read about the solution, you can read about it here. [...]
Hi
I’ve done the modifications to my .conf file, mentioned above.
However when I stops/starts my webserver (from system preferences), and click on my web-site (system preferences) I now get a Safari cannot connect to the server.
If I put in the url: http://localhost, I get the page: It Works!, so apparently appache is running.
Using MacOSx 10.6.1
Looking forward to an advice.
Hi Daniel,
Thanx for a wonderful post. Couldn’t have gotten it working without you.
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Hi all,
Mac OS 10.6 is also affected, but the fix is working correctly
THX
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