Moving ‘Sites’ folder to Dropbox

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I'm trying to move my standard ~/Sites folder, or the global Sites folder (in Library/WebServer/Documents) to my Dropbox folder, and make this usable with Web Sharing, PHP, MySQL etc.

So far I have changed the httpd.conf in etc/apache2 to overwrite these lines:

# original: DocumentRoot "/Library/WebServer/Documents"
DocumentRoot "/Volumes/Macintosh HD/users/cannyboy/Dropbox/Sites"
# original: <Directory "/Library/WebServer/Documents">
<Directory "/Volumes/Macintosh HD/users/cannyboy/Dropbox/Sites">

But when I browse http://localhost I get:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to get this to work?

Best Answer

You could just move the Sites folder into the Dropbox folder - and then make a link/alias from the new Dropbox location back to ~/Sites.

After you've moved the Sites folder into Dropbox you right click on the Sites folder in Dropbox, and then choose "Make Alias" and move this alias into ~/ (remember to rename it to Sites) - alternativ create the alias this way: Can I create Windows-style alias in Finder?

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