Local file not found in browser

Question

Hi!
I struggle building my first web site. The core is a photo album, created in jAlbum. To this album, I want to link from a Welcome page created in Rapid Weaver.
To try this linking out locally, I put the album in my Sites folder, enable Web Sharing and give Everybody Read-Only permission to the disk (called Dates, containing may Home folder, no system).
Now when I enter the address of the index of the album into my browser, I get "Not found". No difference if I use Safari or Firefox, of if I include the tilde or not. So it is no wonder that a link from the Rapid Weaver page doesn't work either.
http://192.168.0.199/~hening/Sites/Landshape/album/index.html
I'll try to keep the Mac running so you can check it out.
What's wrong?
Thank you for your help! - Hening.

Answer 1

The problem looks like it is with your URL. You don't include the Sites folder in the path... try http://192.168.0.199/~hening/Landshape/album/index.html instead.
If that doesn't work, there are too many variables here to be able to troubleshoot it remotely. You need to simplify, and add elements one at a time to figure out where the problem is. For example, first make sure the server is working properly by just going to http://localhost and seeing what happens. (On a SL system, you should see a page that just says "It works!") If that works, put a very basic index.html page in your Sites folder, then go to http://localhost/~hening/index.html and see what you see. Continue from there.