Apache localhost 403 error with Yosemite

Question

I\'ve just installed Mac OS X Yosemite fresh. I configured Apache and chmodded \"users/user/Sites\" to 755. When I hit localhost I receive a 403 Forbidden \"You don\'t hav

Answer 1

This might be very late answer but i did followed most of Stack Overflow solutions, None of them helped me for various reasons. So i did reset my device as a fresh Yosemite OS to get this localhost working on Mac Yosemite (with Symlinks too),

Steps I did exactly :

sudo nano /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

Uncomment the following lines:

#LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so
to
LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so


#LoadModule userdir_module libexec/apache2/mod_userdir.so
to
LoadModule userdir_module libexec/apache2/mod_userdir.so


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

Save and Exit (Ctrl+X press Enter and press Y and enter again)

sudo nano /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf

and uncomment the following line at line 16:

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

Save and Exit (Ctrl+X press Enter and press Y and enter again).

Now go to apache Users folder to check your configuration file exist or not

cd /etc/apache2/users/

if you do not have configuration file in this folder, create one by

sudo nano /etc/apache2/users/<**YOUR USERNAME**>.conf

Replace with the name of your machine (type whoami in terminal and enter that name).

after creating .conf file , copy below lines into that file

/Sites/">
    AddLanguage en .en
    LanguagePriority en fr de
    ForceLanguagePriority Fallback
    Options Indexes MultiViews
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from localhost
     Require all granted

save and Exit

Now restart your apache

sudo apachectl restart

Now go to your browser and type localhost, it should work as expected,

Just as a Note: if it does not work even after try restarting your computer

create index.html as exactly index.html.en that you should find here:

open /Library/Webserver/Documents/

right click on index.html.en and duplicate it to index.html leaving original as it is

try again in browser and if you have success, you can delete the duplicated file

Just to be clear, leave the original file index.html.en where it is, untouched and unharmed throughout this step.

Not sure why I had to take this mysterious detour - probably something local to my machine, but if you're having trouble after following the guide above, see if it helps.

SymLinks :

if you have success, in Browser you should see

It works!

Now create symlink to any your project.

ln -s  

For example if you have project folder in your Documents folder ,then point webroot to your index file by

ln -s /Users//Documents/project/ /Library/Webserver/documents/projectlink 

you might need permission to create symlink (Use above command with Sudo)

Configure apache to follow symlinks ( Thanks to tomvon, i do not enough points to vote you)

sudo nano /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf

on line 250 (in Yosemite) change:

Options FollowSymLinks Multiviews

to:

Options FollowSymLinks Multiviews Indexes

then in the Terminal run:

sudo apachectl restart

Now go to localhost/projectlink to see if your project index file shows here on browser.

Happy Coding..