Personal Web Sharing - Don't have permission to access...

Hi,
I'm new here so I'm not sure the best place to post my question.
I posted the question below at the tail end of this discussion:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=663879&tstart=0
However, that thread is marked "answered" and my question isn't, so I am re-posting here. Please read the above thread so that you'll know what I already know and have done.
My question (if you haven't read it at the bottom of that thread):
I am trying to set up personal web sharing, I have followed all of the above discussion, including Port Forwarding from my router. (I had actually done all of this before searching here, getting instructions from "The Missing Manual: Panther Edition" book.)
The problem is: when I try to access my shared web pages, I get a "You don't have permission to access..." message.
I have changed permissions on all files in the (user)/Sites folder (the one I'm sharing) so that "Others" can "Read Only" but still I cannot access these pages from another computer via the internet. I can access them fine from my home computer.
I know everything is set up correctly and connecting because the remote browser correctly retrieves my computer name (where the shared files are) and port number. It just won't let me in.
Any help appreciated.
thanks,
Eric
G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

braintrino,
I'm not sure how to make sense of your statements.
The situation with FileVault is conceptually simple. The contents of a FileVault user's home directory are on an encrypted disk image. When the user logs in from the login window, that image is mounted (using their home directory path as the mount point); when they log out, the image is unmounted. Note that logging in via ssh doesn't cause the system to mount their home directory...
So, when a user is logged in, Apache can (if normal UNIX permissions permit it) see their ~Sites folder and serve pages. When the user is logged out, Apache can't.
I suppose that a FileVault user might be able to get around this, if they don't mind leaving their ~Sites folder unencrypted... They could create a folder outside of their home directory (e.g., /Users/Shared/braintrinos_site/) and put their Web pages there; log into their account and replace their ~Sites folder with a symbolic link to their Web page directory; log out, then ssh in and add a symbolic link from their home directory to their Web page directory. Then, whether they're logged in or not, Apache should be able to see a symbolic link from ~Sites to the unencrypted Web page directory.
Powerbook G4 1GHz Mac OS X (10.3.9)

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"You don't have permission to access"

I am having problems with Web Sharing on my primary user account.
In the Setting>Sharing>Web Sharing panel it shows my computer address and the address for my personal website.
When I click on the computer's address, I get a page that says "It Works!" but when I click the personal website address, I get "You don't have permission to access..."
I created a test account and everything works fine there. I repaired permissions and ran the 10.6.4 combo update again and neither helped.
Any suggestions on what else to look at? I'm baffled.

j.v. wrote:
Now try doing a chmod -vv 755 Sites. See whether that fixes you.
This did not fix the problem
If doing that chmod doesn't fix it, do a ls -dle@ Sites since that folder is showing some additional extended attributes, so I can see what they are.
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I presume your "Graphics" folder that is in your "Sites" folder is something that you put in there?
Yes, some time ago, don't remember why and I'm not using the contents so I will probably delete it.
If you do those things, then hopefully that will fix you up. If you are still having problems, just like you first did, do a
ls -Rle@ Sites > Desktop/modperms.txt
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Done
PS - in your test account that you created, since it works, the files' and folders' permissions there are exactly like what your files' and folders' permissions in your account should look like. So if you were to do a
ls -Rle@ ../testAcctShortUserName/Sites
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[jay-hs-macbook:~] j% ls -Rle@ ../websharetest/Sites
total 1184
-rw-r--r--@ 1 websharetest staff 302232 Aug 12 19:18 Pictures alias
com.apple.FinderInfo 32
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-rw-r--r-- 1 websharetest staff 16624 Aug 12 00:49 gradient.jpg
[jay-hs-macbook:~] j% ls -Rle@ Sites
total 8
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drwxr-xr-x 3 j staff 102 Aug 12 00:49 images
-rw-r--r-- 1 j staff 2642 Aug 12 00:49 index.html
Sites/images:
total 40
-rw-r--r-- 1 j staff 16624 Aug 12 00:49 gradient.jpg
(Note: I removed the results for the Graphics folder since I plan to delete it)
It seems that the critical folders have the same permissions. Where else should I look?
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I think that statement refers to 10.3 - lower in the article, it says that for Tiger, the "Public" folder won't be visible after logging in. It could also be referring to some changes made to personal file sharing that were made between 10.3 and 10.4, rather than a filevault specific issue.
Just to reiterate, I don't think enabling web sharing for a user that needs the security of FileVault is really a good idea. It might be better to give that user a second non-FileVault account, where they can place their materials. That way, the homepage would be available even if they are logged out.

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