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AutoIndex Permission

I was experimenting with PHP and MySQL, and wanted my localhost server to automatically list the contents of my home directory as I added new subdirectories.

When I removed the index.html and index.php files and opened the browser to that directory, it didn’t work! It gave “Permission denied: Can’t open directory”.

I looked into httpd.conf, and added Option Indexes right at the top, restarted Apache, but that made no difference.

I changed AllowOveride None to AllowOveride All, and put the commands into a .httpaccess file into the home directory, and still no change (entering garbage into .httpaccess did give an Invalid Command error, so I knew .httpaccess was being read).

In Terminal, I saw that all the permissions for my home directory were set except “read for other”:

drwxrwx-wx 32 GG GG 1088 Jan 9 22:52 Sites/

To solve the problem:

chmod +r Sites

That did it! Now I have server-generated directory listings.

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Really Simple Syndication

I hear NetNewsWire has an excellent RSS Reader for the Mac, and now Safari has one. I didn’t really get the point of having one until I saw the short movie explaining RSS by Common Craft.

This is the dialog box showing at Safari > Preferences > RSS

The way it works is, when you see an RSS icon on a webpage, click the icon to create the feed link, and save it as a bookmark in the Bookmarks Bar. The aggregate will show up at the bottom of that bar’s category.