Shinji Kuwayama

So I started getting an Apache permission error when trying to load up a Ruby on Rails app under Passenger:

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

After spinning my wheels for a little while, I discovered it was because I had turned on FileVault (in Snow Leopard, but I believe it’ll happen the same way in Leopard).

The fix was simple:

chmod +a "www allow search" /Users/username

I hope this saves some Googler  a few minutes…