Advice on where to put DOCUMENT_ROOT

[anton]

Hi
I have installed Apache2 and PHP and want to have DOCUMENT_ROOT set to 
my a directory in my home folder, so I can write to the thing and test 
it at the same time. My idea is then to mirror the entire directory up 
to the actual www address, once I am happy with it. I am also interested 
in investigating the running of a web server, so there is no need to 
tell me I don't need to run one! It gives me a
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Forbidden

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

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use 
an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

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message if I set it to a dir in my home though, even though that is an 
exact copy of what is there (and it works when set to default 
/var/www/html/). What am I doing wrong? I didn't want to be logged in as 
root to edit my webpages which is why I wanted to change in the first 
place...
Cheers
Anton
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