Leopard: Install methods and Personal Web sharing weirdness (aka apache)

[John David Eriksen]

OK..

I have now done 8 Leopard installs.. (yes guys busy weekend using a real apple disk) And.. I think I have found something...

6 INSTALLS via Update method:
Personal Web sharing is wacked..

1) I does serve pages out of the:
Library/webserver/Documents folder

2) it DOES NOT serve pages out of the:
Users/[account]/Sites folder

error says:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /~[accntname]/ on this server.

This has repeated on 6 different boxes and was tested using the two provided links in the sharing prefs panel (yes web sharing was checked and running)

ALL THESE BOXES ARE G5 and Up and 4 were intel boxes
ALL OF THESE BOXES ARE 10.5 INSTALLS VIA 'UPDATE"


CLEAN INSTALLS (wiping the disk)
The following two of these installs are CLEAN INSTALLS wiping the disk and starting over with Leopard

One was a G5 iMac one was an Intel core2 based iMac

In BOTH cases...
When you turn on web sharing.. the 'Test you web site' URLs are missing...

I was so tired and disgusted I didn't bother to test if they worked (stupid after all that work but....8-\

but will test tomorrow and post and update to this item

DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEAS HERE...?

ALSO I HAVE been all over the net and looking for whines and rants on Leopard install issues about this but all I see is blue screen complaints.
And other minor things...

Or is this just me

Thanks in advance

go test your install and post if it seems to work or.. not work correctly.

Use the sharing Prefs panel links.. Q&D and gets the job done in under a minute.

Pls lemme know