Enable web sharing with FileVault active, revisited
Aug 24, '05 08:03:00AM
Contributed by: skeemer
The safest way I can figure to get Web Sharing (in the Sharing Preferences panel) to work while using FileVault is to add the www group to the user's directory. This has to be done via the Terminal. Also note that only users with admin privileges can do this. Here are the necessary commands:
$ chmod 710 ~
$ sudo chgrp www ~ [enter password]
$ exit
That's all you have to type. If web sharing still isn't working, follow the next steps:
Open up your home directory and use File: Get Info on the Sites directory. Expand the Details under Ownerships & Permissions. Click the lock to unlock and set Others to Read Only and then click Apply to enclosed items. That should take care of any roadblocks, and if you needed to do the last two steps, remember that any new directories and files need to be set the same way.
A 2003 solution posted here actually opens up all your user files to be read by any user on the computer ... which sort of nullifies the reason for using FileVault in the first place.
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