`Apache` `localhost/~username/` not working

Question

UPDATE: The following answer will also work for El Capitan.

For people who just start, the file mentioned below is under /etc/apache2

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Answer 1

Resuming for El Captain, with users support:

• sudo nano /private/etc/apache2/users/username.conf

  
      Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
      AllowOverride All
      Order allow,deny
      Allow from localhost
      Require all granted
  
  

• sudo nano /etc/apache2/httpd.conf, uncomment:

  LoadModule userdir_module libexec/apache2/mod_userdir.so
  LoadModule include_module libexec/apache2/mod_include.so
  LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/apache2/mod_rewrite.so
  LoadModule cgi_module libexec/apache2/mod_cgi.so
  LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so
  
  Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf
  

• sudo nano /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf, uncomment:

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

• apachectl configtest

• sudo apachectl restart

Taken from here.