Code is Mandatory

Out of the box, personal websites weren’t working. Mainly because Leopard ships with Apache2 compared to Tiger’s 1.3.

The following helped solve the problem for me.

• Enable php5 by updating /etc/apache2/httpd.conf and uncomment the line

  LoadModule php5.module...

• Turn on personal web sharing via System Preferences.
• Users configuration is done in /etc/apache2/users. Ensure that you have a

  youruserid.conf

  file with appropriate directives. Mine contains

    <Directory "/Users/youruserid/Sites/">
        Options Indexes MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
  

• Logs are written to /var/log/apache2 rather than /var/log/httpd.

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