Removing the Tilde (~) Character From the Address of Locally Hosted Sites on Mac OS X

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I’ve been working on some sites locally on my Mac but by default the files are stored in a directory in the individuals user account called Sites and the address you’ve got to type into your browser is http://localhost/~username/etc… this annoyed me because I didn’t want to have to type the tilde character in the address and also that I had to have the files showing in a subdirectories of my user. I couldn’t be doing with it, I wanted to have addresses like ‘http://localhost/subdomain/’ and the solution of course is to use symbolic links.

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