Sites Folder in Leopard

One day i was surfing through some settings and i found the "web Sharing" option, turned it on, and it said "Web Sharing allows users of other computers to view Web pages in the sites folders on this computer." Now, where is that "sites" Folder? and how do I work this feature in Leopard.
I you have any advice or helpful answers
Thank you in advance.

fenderbenderr45,
Turning "Personal Web Sharing" on or off toggles the installed Apache Web Server, and opens the appropriate port (80).
Apache, as it is configured by default in OS X, serves at least two "web directories." The first one is /Library/WebServer/Documents. Anything placed in this folder will be served to the internet when Web Sharing is turned on.
In addition to the "main" web directory, each user has a personal web directory: their "Sites" folder (/Users/HOME/Sites), and it is analogous to the "Documents" folder in the main web directory.
Assuming that Web Sharing is turned on, and your machine is connected to the internet, anyone across the internet can navigate to and read/download anything in the "main" web directory by entering your public IP address (formatted as "http://xx.xxx.xxx.xxx") in their web browser. To navigate to a personal web directory, they must enter "http://xx.xxx.xxx.xxx/~username," where "username" is the user's short name. When Personal Web Sharing is turned on, this information is displayed in the Sharing pane (if you are behind a router, with a private IP address, only the private IP address is shown, and it will not be accessible from "outside" your network).
If you are behind a router, you must configure the router to forward http (port 80) requests to your private IP address.
There are certain standards to follow when creating a "web site." An index page, written in HTML and titled "Index.html," will be the first page anyone sees when navigating to your site. If no index page is present, however, Apache is smart enough to dynamically create a basic text-only index page listing whatever files or folders you have in your "Sites" folder (or the main web directory). Your site can be as basic or as elaborate as you have the resources and knowledge to create.
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