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

August 10th, 2008

The Upgrade to Leopard was flawless! I took backup of everything on the HD if I had to revert to plan B, which is clean install!

Ok! Lets start the game and start playing with the Web powerhouse under this OS. I switched on Web Sharing, typed in:

http://localhost/~username

And I got the following error:

Forbidden: 403 Error
You dont have permissions to access localhost/~username

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Running MySql on Mac OS X Leopard

August 10th, 2008

We have previously activated Apache Web Server and the native PHP packed with Mac OS X. We have managed to host static pages and also dynamic functionality using PHP. Now, its time to get ourselves the Database tier, the ever famous MySql Server. More info on MySql here. Hence, we will be completing the OS , Apache, MySql & PHP stack, commonly called LAMP for Linux, WAMP for Windows and MAMP for Mac OS X.
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Serving PHP with Mac OS X

August 10th, 2008

In my last Post, we fired up the Apache server, respectively v 1.3 in Tiger & v 2.2 in Leopard. By now putting up Hello World! static page is just blink of an eye effort. And we can also start and stop our server via Terminal. Nice! From here we take on to start the native PHP available in Max OS X. Tiger Supports PHP 4.4.7 and Leopard supports PHP 5.2.4. To start PHP we have to make changes in the Apache configuration file.
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