~/Sites folder gives 403 error This is likely a stupid question, and it should be easy, but I'm clearly not seeing it. 

My local Sites directory seems to have changed permissions since using it yesterday. It's been working fine for months and I can't for the life of me figure out what's changed.


The localhost works fine, but my home Sites folder gives a 403
my local Sites directory (~/Sites) is 755 permissions, as are the directories inside, and the files are mostly 644
Permissions on ~/Sites is drwxr-xr-x+, owned by my shortname &amp; staff, which seems right
Checked apachectl configuration and got a "Syntax OK" response
Just to be clear, this was working. My /etc/apache2/httpd.conf allows for user-directories (uncommented) and it resolves the virtual hosts I've set, they all just have some mystical 403 blocking them.
Adding insult to injury, the Sites work in other user profiles on the machine, and they have the same permissions


So - stumped. What am I just not seeing?
Take a look at other directories' permissions; for example, your home directory vs. the other home directories:

ls -le /Users/


It should look something like this:

drwxr-xr-x+ 13 user1   staff   442 12 Nov  2010 user1/
 0: group:everyone deny delete
drwxr-xr-x+ 63 user2   staff  2142  9 Aug 16:55 user2/
 0: group:everyone deny delete


There's a good chance that your home directory has somehow been set to different permissions (e.g. 700), and that's causing Apache to choke.