OSX Mountain Lion workaround to enable web sharing

I have just upgraded to Mountain Lion. But I feel very disappointed that the web sharing feature is missing. I cannot access my local site, but somehow I still can get the default apache page when accessing http://localhost/.

Here is the workaround that I did to re-enable my own site. To make it safe, make sure to make a copy of /etc/apache2/httpd.conf before modifying anything.

(1) Open terminal, switch to root:

$ sudo su -

(2) Go to /etc/apache2/users/:

$ cd /etc/apache2/users $ ls

(3) I found one file Guest.conf. I copy the file into another file (in this case I am using my own user name: chn.conf), and edit the directory location to my Site location in "/Users/chn/Sites":

$ cp Guest.conf chn.conf $ vi chn.conf

It looks like this after the modification:

<Directory "/Users/chn/Sites/">
    Options Indexes MultiViews
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

(4) Let apache load PHP module, by editing the httpd.conf:

$ vi /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

Search for the following line:

#LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

and remove the remark "#" in the beginning of the line so it looks like this:

LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

(5) Restart the apache service by the following command:

$ apachectl restart

Now I can access my own homepage again.

That's all :)