Web sharing no longer working.

I have seen loads of posts on this issue - even though I have web sharing selected in system preferences, I am unable to get it to work. I am a novice and I know I have to do something in Terminal, but I'm not sure what.
Can someone please provide a step by step solution for this problem.
Thanks you.
mi

Ok, I couldn't let the dog die so I spent a day to make the sob work. Here is what I found. (replace all incidents of * with your short user name)
1) Leopard websharing is broke and no one a Apple is working it.
2) Cut and paste this command to Terminal (sorry, I do not know any way but Terminal on this):
sudo mkdir /private/var/log/apache2
3) Authenticate and press return
4) Change finder so you can see invisible files (use an app like Cocktail, Onyx or YASU)
5) Open the /private/etc/apache2/users/ folder in your root directory (invisible item, see step 4 above)
6) Open Textedit and paste the following into a new document:
# Allow access to *'s Sites directory for web clients.
<Directory "/Users/*/Sites/">
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
7) Replace * with your short user name (i.e. /Users/sandman/Sites/)
8) Change the document to plain text
9) SaveAs to your desk top as *.conf (i.e. sandman.conf)
10) Move the .conf document to the user folder opened in step 5 and authenticate
Sorry but all these steps were required for my fix. I also fixed permissions with Disk Utility.
You may have to move away from your web server's router to another server to view your web site or Safari could refuse connection.
I hope I don't forget all of this crud after the next update.

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