Hosting a website

so i followed these directions by apple
"You can use the Apache Web server software included with Mac OS X to host a website on your computer.
Open System Preferences, click Sharing, click the File & Web tab, and turn on Web Sharing.
Web pages you put in your Sites folder (in your home folder) can be browsed at http://your.computer.address/~yourusername/
Use your short user name, and include the ending slash (/).
Pages you put on your hard disk in Library/WebServer/Documents can be browsed at http://your.computer.address
To find your computer's address, look at the bottom of the Sharing pane of System Preferences.
To learn more, use a browser to open index.html in your Sites folder or look in /Library/WebServer/Documents/Manual.
This document contains information from Help Center, the help system included with your computer."
When u try to go to http://your.computer.address/~yourusername/ it opens a page that says forbidden-You don't have permission to access /~lochtefeldm/ on this server
Why does it keep saying this and how do i fix it?

This was a big problem back with beginning of Tiger or Leopard, don't remember which.
You need to have a file called "lochtefeldm.conf"
The above file needs to be in the /etc folder.
Click on the go button at the top and then down to "Go to folder"..
Type in /etc and then open that folder.
In the etc folder you will find "Apache2" folder and open that.
Inside there you will find a folder called users.
I am assuming at this point that you don't have a file in there call "lochtefeldm.conf"
If you don't have the file, create one using text edit and put in this info.
<Directory "/Users/lochtefeldm/Sites/">
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
Save the above text edit file as lochtefeldm.conf and put it in the users folder from the path above.
You will need to authenticate to move the new file you just created to the users folder.
Now your Web Sharing should work...
For some reason mine was missing also. I am going to have to check the rest of my computers to see if Snow Leopard just put in a blank folder...

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