Mac OS X + Apache + Web Sharing

Question

I'm running Mac OS X (Snow Leopard) and I'm trying to use Eclipse PDT and I'd like to use "Web Sharing" built-in feature that basically runs Apache. I'm doing code change in PDT and I want to use Safari and be able to hit my own server ( localhost ) and access those files without manually copying them over from one folder to another. How do I do that? I've tried

sudo vi /etc/apache2/users/alexus.conf

and then adding /Alias although that didn't help, in fact as soon as I hit myself at http://localhost/~alexus/workspace seems like it crashed my apache, or else I'm doing something wrong, this is what I get in my logs...

[Tue Sep 22 18:46:53 2009] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Tue Sep 22 18:47:10 2009] [warn] Init: Session Cache is not configured [hint: SSLSessionCache]

Answer 1

I'm not sure why was it crashing, but by adding following line into

mbp:~ alexus$ grep ^Alias /etc/apache2/users/alexus.conf 
Alias /~alexus/workspace    /Users/alexus/workspace
mbp:~ alexus$ 

did the trick...