I have a mac that runs the default mac web server (apache and php)

going through the wordpress training- when I enable permalinks, they do not work on my machine. I get the following error message:

Forbidden You don't have permission to access /~steve02/allisongrayce/index.php on this server.

I read a little about permalinks and followed this tutorial to resolve it http://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-404-localhost-on-mac-os-x

I still cannot access the files via permalinks

What's interesting is that the Contact link that should go to page.php ---the error says forbidden on index.php

any suggestions?

Heres a little more information on how i set this up When I activate my permalinks to post name I get this error message

403 Forbidden

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /~steve02/allisongrayce/index.php on this server.

Here is what I have done so far

htaccess file --permissions set to 777

Options -Indexes Options +FollowSymLinks

BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /~steve%202/allisongrayce/ RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /~steve%202/allisongrayce/index.php [L] </IfModule>

END WordPress

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etc/apache2/httpd.conf

has the following code in it

User home directories

Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf

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httpd-userdir.conf has the following code in it

Settings for user home directories

Required module: mod_userdir

UserDir: The name of the directory that is appended onto a user's home

directory if a ~user request is received. Note that you must also set

the default access control for these directories, as in the example below.

UserDir Sites

Users might not be in /Users/*/Sites, so use user-specific config files.

Include /private/etc/apache2/users/*.conf <IfModule bonjour_module> RegisterUserSite customized-users </IfModule>

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steve 2.conf file has this code in it

<Directory "/Users/steve 2/Sites/"> Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All AuthConfig

Allow from all

</Directory>

Any suggestions?