Web Sharing?

Hello,
I went to System Preferences > Sharing > I checked Personal Web Sharing. After that I get this information
"View this computer’s website at http://ipaddress/ or your personal website at http://ipaddress/~myusername/"
When i clicked on the first link it works and goes to an apache page saying that it was successful but when i clicked on the second link it says Forbidden"
How can I fix that?
Also, Where do i put the files to display my php pages?
Thanks

Hi,
Installing PHP is a very simple process, but make
very sure you follow the directions provided on this
website below carefully. If you do not, you may be
installing PHP more than once.
PHP is already included with OS X's Apache server.
How To Turn On PHP in OS X >>
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After messing around with this a bit I started to get the 403 errors and decided to remove all the additional code mentioned in the link above in the apache config file and go back to my original set up, but this is not working.
Is there a easy way to remove apache and install a default version like that which comes with OSX to start over with a clean config file, or can someone tell me where in the config file to search to see what else is going wrong?

Hi Mark, some clues... & are you restarting Apache each change?
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11085842
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/apache-403-forbidden-error-and-solution/
http://techtrouts.com/mac-os-x-105-web-sharing-forbidden-403-on-httplocalhostuse rname/

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