Missing File and Folders in Terminal

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Missing File and Folders in Terminal

I just got a new Macbook pro (M1) and I am unable to see any files in the /usr/local folder in terminal. I need access to the files and folders in here to setup and configure a local server environment. I have given full disk access to Terminal. I also can't see these files and folders in Finder, so it isn't specific to Terminal. I have also tried doing a clean install with no change. I'm using the only account on the computer, so it has Admin privileges.

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Posted on Feb 25, 2021 10:42 AM

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VikingOSX

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Feb 25, 2021 11:31 AM in response to pjeffb

Apple includes Apache in macOS 11.*, so unless there are specific features that you must have from a newer version, adding it from brew might be unnecessary.

If you are running homebrew 3.0.0 or later (advised) on an M1 Mac, it wants to put things in /opt/homebrew, which would explain why you were surprised about the empty /usr/local — where it would have placed things on an Intel Mac.

I have brew 3.0.2 and it blithely creates arm64 binaries in /opt/homebrew.

My some lines in my ~/.zshrc:

export PATH=".:$HOME/bin:/opt/homebrew/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH"
export HOMEBREW_PREFIX="/opt/homebrew"
export HOMEBREW_CELLAR="/opt/homebrew/Cellar"
export HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1

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Feb 25, 2021 10:49 AM in response to pjeffb

If this is a booted out-of-the-box M1, without a time machine migration, then there may not be a /usr/local folder by default, and you will have to make one. You won't see the contents of /usr/local in the Finder unless you enter that path in the Finder's Go to Folder (shift+command+G) dialog.

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Feb 25, 2021 11:19 AM in response to VikingOSX

I have the /usr/local folder, but it is completely empty. I have installed Homebrew and used Homebrew to install a new version of Apache as was recommended. The next steps in the tutorial indicate that I should edit the http.conf file which is located at /usr/local/etc/httpd/httpd.conf. However, I can't get any deeper than /usr/local.

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