Probs setting up Apache Web Server

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Probs setting up Apache Web Server

Setting up a local web server on OS X by etresoft

The above note works pretty well for setting up Apache on Mavericks, but two things don't happen as advertized.

1) http://<short machine name/ goes to my ISP's default page for non-existend domain names. However http://<local IP address> works fine.

2) http://<local IP address>/~<Short user name> returns a 403 Forbidden.

I have set the file system permission on ~/Sites and ~/Sites/index.html.en to 777 without fixing the problem.

Any help available?

I can't find a way to post this directly as a reply to the note itself.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)

Posted on Jun 16, 2015 11:16 PM

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Mar 28, 2016 9:49 PM in response to wrishel

Hi,

I had a similar problem until I finally noticed that the user configuration under /etc/apache2/users/<your short user name>.conf was not seen by apache for the following reason:

/etc/apache2/httpd.conf contains an import to find the user configuration:

# User home directories

#Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf

This line was commented, and needs to be uncommented with sudo vi /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf

Double check /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf. It should contain the line:

Include /private/etc/apache2/users/*.conf

which actually looks are your user configuration for your directories.

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