Personal web pages sharing denied

I upgraded to leopard over the weekend and now my site folder will not function as a web server. My attempts to open http://localhost/~myusername/ return a 403 permission denied error. Web sharing preferences panel link is active and when clicked returns the apache installation successful page. The thing is I get this page when using the http://192.168.x.x/ address, but not when using http://192.168.x.x/~myuserid. There is only one user on the computer and it is me, I should have all permissions. Web sharing is turned on and the sites fold was working fine as a testing sever before I upgraded. How do I fix this, I find the help screens for setting up the web server to be extremely brief.

I had this same problem.
It appears that when an "Upgrade" is installed, it does not install a xxxx.conf file in the folder:
etc/apache2/users
Here is what I did.
1. In your System Preferences "Accounts" panel, turn on sharing for the Guest
This creates a file in etc/apache2/users
2. On the main menu bar select the "Go" item and then down to "Go to Folder"
Type in etc/
3. In the etc folder open up the "apache2" folder and then open up the "users" folder
4. In there you will find the newly created "Guest.conf"
Copy this to your desktop
5. Open this up using text edit and replace the username inside of this file instead of Guest to your short username...
Also rename the file from Guest.conf to your short username.conf
example: xxxx.conf
6. Put this file back into the etc/apache2/users/ folder.
It will ask you to authenticate.... Do so...
Restart your Web Sharing and the Web Sharing should be working just fine.
Mine does.

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