Comments on: Forbidden 403 error in Leopard Mac OS 10.5 with Web Sharing On

By: Kay

Kay — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:32:38 +0000

I had to do what Andrew did to get it working – i still feel a bit uncomfortable to set my whole Home folder to Read-only for everyone .. isn’t there another solution like adding the whole folder in in the conf file, not just the Users/me/Sites one?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:31:38 +0000

For what it is worth, this all didn’t work for me. What did was doing and Apple-I on the SITES folder and setting it to R/W for (me), Read Only for unknown and everyone.

But that still wasn’t enough. I had to go back to my /user/name/ folder and set it for everyone ‘Read Only’–then I got websharing to work. Go figure.

By: Harry

Harry — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:31:03 +0000

I have just started getting the 403 Forbidden error for all of my users’ websites. The main website is working just fine but all of the users just stopped this weekend and had been working just fine. This is a clean install of OS X Server Leopard.

By: Ted Wood

Ted Wood — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:30:27 +0000

I’ve been running Apache2 under Leopard for a number of weeks now, but this weekend it just decided to throw up a 403 Forbidden error for every VirtualHost I have configured. Very strange.

Unfortunately, nothing I’ve tried (including this solution) has worked. Must be missing something very obvious.

By: Sergio

Sergio — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:29:42 +0000

it worked for me, thanks a lot!