Mapping Localhost to External Hard Drive

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Mapping Localhost to External Hard Drive

Why can I no longer see my local host that has been in effect since Sierra? I have had a local host on my systems since Leopard and just recently upgraded to Catalina and now I get:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access this resource.

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-250001766

I have tried the above and no change... no matter what - it wont see the external drive...

So here are some things I have done in addition to the above link.

I created an alias on my internal drive - but cant map to it...

I have mapped to my internal drive to various locations and it finds that directory.

I have mapped to my external drive and misspell the directory on purpose so I know it is reading the conf file. When mispelled I get DocumentRoot '/Volumes/4TB_2020HDD/WebServer1' is not a directory, or is not readable - remove the one and config test works fine / restart works fine.

So what has changed?

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Aug 24, 2020 9:00 PM

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etresoft

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Aug 25, 2020 7:56 AM in response to Mike from RR

Those instructions are designed to run a web server for development and testing out of your home directory. If you make changes, there is no guarantee it will work. It sounds like you are being blocked by new user permissions in Catalina. Processes are restricted from accessing certain privacy-sensitive locations, including external disks. Serve daemons like Apache will not display a user interface to ask the user if they should be allowed to use these locations. Maybe try giving Apache Full Disk Access.

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