Help: Software Update for OS X Lion Server

After having a problem with my software update service for some time now, I thought I would implement the fix at
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3867
entitled " Lion Server: Software Update Server may not provide Mac OS X v10.7 software updates after upgrade"
Unfortunately it seems to have broken the service!
I now get the error
<Error>: Unable to retrieve catalog(s) from the Apple server
and
Syntax error on line 288 of /etc/swupd/swupd.conf:
DocumentRoot must be a directory
The offending script is in the apple support document which I copy and pasted.

Just fixed this myself.
SWUPD is expecting a directory within the one you chose, called "html".
Example: /Volumes/XSAN/SWUPD/html
It will not create "html" if the directory doesn't exist.
Create the folder "html" then in terminal do this:
sudo chown -R _softwareupdate:_softwareupdate /path/to/the/folder
Example: sudo chown -R _softwareupdate:_softwareupate /Volumes/XSAN/SWUPD
##do not include/html. the -R means recursive and forces the same ownership on all contained directories.

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