I am worried about my localhost files, so I want to sync them with iCloud Drive. After some attempts to do it all I get on my http://localhost is 403 Forbidden error.
I've tried what I've done with my ~/Downloads folder — just replacing it with an alias to ~/Documents/Downloads, while Documents is syncing with iCloud Drive. But with ~/Sites folder, which is located, moreover, in the same "Home" folder (~/), it doesn't work.
DocumentRoot "/Users/dafuqtor/Sites"
<Directory "/Users/dafuqtor/Sites">
This is how my localhost directory looks in httpd.conf now. But as I said above, when I just change the DocumentRoot and Directory to "/Users/dafuqtor/Documents/Sites", I'm getting 403 trying to access http://localhost.
I have looked into /var/log/apache2/error_log. For the first time, it said Cannot serve directory ... server-generated directory index forbidden by Options directive, so I added Options +Indexes to httpd.conf.
Now error_log gives me this when I'm trying to access localhost:
access to / denied (filesystem path '/Users/dafuqtor/Documents/Sites') because search permissions are missing on a component of the path
Apache normally runs as the user _www, and ~/Documents normally has its permissions set so that nobody but its owner (i.e, user dafuqtor) can access it.
You could solve this by using chmod to give everyone at least execute permission on your documents folder (chmod o+x ~/Documents) but I don’t particularly recommend this; in combination with a web server it seems to invite mistakes leaving your entire documents directory open to the world!
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I'm running El Capitan and trying to get my website hosted locally for development with Apache (that came with the OS). I followed the instructions here exactly. I made an anthony.conf file and put the Directory text in there, I replaced the actual directory with /Users/anthony/dev/web/unfinished-asteroids/ and then placed my web files in there. I started apache and navigated for localhost/~anthony but I get the
Not Found: The requested URL /~anthony was not found on this server.
standard 404 error. When I navigate to localhost it works fine and I get the "It works" from the index.html that is located in /Library/WebServer/Documents, I even changed that index.html file and it works fine.
Any ideas why I'm not able to see my website using apache? All I did was download this github repository and place it in my unfinished-asteroids folder, the index.html is at the root.
So it looks like there are a couple of extra steps that you need to do. There isn't really anything too special about apache that comes with OSX, so your standard apache configurations will work. but to get Userdir (~username) working on El Capitan,this is what I had to do
Edit /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
on (or near) line 166, uncomment
loadModule userdir_module libexec/apache2/mod_userdir.so
then on line 493 uncomment
Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf
then edit file /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf
uncomment line 16
Include /private/etc/apache2/users/*.conf
then in /etc/apache2/users/anthony.conf
<Directory "/Users/anthony/Sites/">
Options Indexes MultiViews
Require all granted
</Directory>
then sudo apachectl restart
That should make http://localhost/~anthony point to your sites directory.
Logs are stored in /var/log/apache2
Now if all you want is web access to say your dev directory you can do something like this.. (don't make any of the changes listed above)
in /etc/apache2/other/ create a file called mydev.conf (name doesn't really matter, save it needs to end in .conf')
and put this in that file
Alias /dev /Users/anthony/dev/
<Directory "/Users/anthony/dev">
Options Indexes MultiViews
Require all granted
</Directory>
and reload apache (sudo apachectl restart)
then you will be able to access your dev folder at http://localhost/dev and should be able to access your page at http://localhost/dev/web/unfinished-asteroids/
you can adjust the paths at will above, just need to make sure that the user or group _www has access to it, and that paths in the alias and the directory match.
I have a website which I copied to this location. The public_html folder was also uploaded with the other folders but it is not showing up. Please guide me. Thanks.
As you are using DreamHost web hosting you wont have any control over ssh and chmod , chown commands. I think dreamhost wont use cPanel for shared hosting, they have their own control panel, so there is nothing you can do, Ask dreamHost support to reinitialize your public_html directory. Surely they will do that. I searched on dreamhost forum and found these link-
https://discussion.dreamhost.com/thread-13646-post-13647.html#pid13647
https://discussion.dreamhost.com/thread-128630.html
Currently in your case i saw that there is no issue related to public_html (technically "Document Root" ) directory coz as your http://www.inspuratesystems.com/second/ is pointing to correct directory , and your documentRoot is parent of that directory, So if your documentRoot was wrong then there were no chance to access that that url, currently your domain is opening a correct index.html file which indicates that your documentRoot is there.
Create a index.html or home.html file there manually (from their web based file manager) and see if it is working or not, if it works then there is some issue with your uploading.
Your hosting provider seems to be dreamhost.com
Please check out this thread, according to which public_html seems to be a special case on dreamhost:
https://discussion.dreamhost.com/thread-144453.html
and/or this:
Getting a 'Not Found' error on my website?
Hope it helps!
Make sure that the public_html folder has execute permissions
chmod a+x public_html
That will allow execute permissions for everybody.
Perhaps it's possible that server (apache?) hides folders named public_html? Also check that group others have read and execute permissions for that folder.
In folder /path/to/second/ run
chmod ugo+rx .
chmod -R ugo+rx public_html
to set folder visible.
cpanel may handle the "public_html" folder in a unique way. Try uploading to a folder like: /home/yourusername/public_html/second/files/ instead of /home/yourusername/public_html/second/public_html/
If you are wanting to create a new distinct website at inspuratesystems.com/second/ you don't need a second "public_html" folder. Just put them in the /home/yourusername/public_html/second directory.
If you are using a linux or OS X server, you may need to change the permissions on the folder.
Did you checked if the folder is hidden attribute?
If you execute ls -a in terminal, you will know about it's existence. If it is present then please try giving it read & execute permission (using chmod 555 command). Give write permission if you are planning to write something or take feedback from users (using chmod 777).
I tried some of this options above but unfortunately none worked. Instead I discovered that in CPanel you have a "Preferences" tab and in that tab you have a "User Manager" function. You can there edit the ftp user that you created before in CPanel. On the "User Manager" funcion you can find the "Home Directory" configuration. On that home directory you just choose the "public_html". When you configure the user in the ftp account on your ftp platform, it goes directly to the path you defined in CPanel.
I'm working on mac 10.6.8 and I've installed xampp and would like to change where the htdocs files are looked for. I have changed the httpd.conf file in the etc folder within xampp
so the lines now read:
DocumentRoot "/WorkArea/folderforhtml"
I've also changed the directory to that folder
Directory "/WorkArea/folderforhtml"
I've put a test.html folder in that file but when I go to my localhost/test.html I'm getting a 403 error. Is there a permission setting I need to change in order to access these files?
I've restarted the server many times as well.
I have a local development environment setup on my mac and I am having permission issues accessing a folder in my ~/Sites directory.
Essentially I have Folder A in my Dropbox folder.
I created a SymLink of Folder A to my ~/Sites folder
ln -s ~/Sites ~/Dropbox/FolderA
When I try to access Folder A like so: localhost/~username/FolderA
The page says You don't have permission to access /~username/FolderA on this server
Can someone help me figure out this problem. When I do the same thing on MAMP I don't have this issue. Thanks in advance.
Go on private/etc/apache2/users/, edit your usernamefile.conf, add to the Options line, the option SymLinksIfOwnerMatch, don't use FollowSymLinks if the directory contains important personal files, if for example the dir that you want link is are under your Documents or Dropbox.
Remember that the directory linked by your symbolic link must have 755 permission, and so her parents!
Let's suppose you have /Users/foo/Dropbox/MySites/BarSite, both Users, foo, Dropbox, MySites, BarSite must be 755.
It's hard to find Mac-specific answers to this question on the web, so I'm hoping someone out there can put this one to rest for me? My permissions are screwed up on my sites and I'm not sure how to fix them without just slamming a recursive 777 on everything which is quite obviously incorrect.
Thanks!
This is the most restrictive and safest way I've found, as explained here for hypothetical ~/my/web/root/ directory for your web content:
For each parent directory leading to your web root (e.g. ~/my, ~/my/web, ~/my/web/root):
chmod go-rwx DIR (nobody other than owner can access content)
chmod go+x DIR (to allow "users" including _www to "enter" the dir)
sudo chgrp -R _www ~/my/web/root (all web content is now group _www)
chmod -R go-rwx ~/my/web/root (nobody other than owner can access web content)
chmod -R g+rx ~/my/web/root (all web content is now readable/executable/enterable by _www)
All other solutions leave files open to other local users (who are part of the "staff" group as well as obviously being in the "o"/others group). These users may then freely browse and access DB configurations, source code, or other sensitive details in your web config files and scripts if such are part of your content. If this is not an issue for you, then by all means go with one of the simpler solutions.
If you really don't like the Terminal here is the GUI way to do dkamins is telling you :
1) Go to your user home directory (ludo would be mine) and from the File menu choose Get Info cmdI in the inspector :
2) By alt/option clicking on the [+] sign add the _www group and set it's permission to read-only :
Thus consider (good practice) not storing personnal information at the root of your user home folder (& hard disk) !
You may skip this step if the **everyone** group has **read-only** permission but since AirDrop the **/Public/Drop Box** folder is mostly useless...
3) Show the Get Info inspector of your user Sites folder and reproduce step 2 then from the gear action sub-menu choose Apply to enclosed Items... :
Voilà 3 steps and the GUI only way...
I know this is an old post, but for anyone upgrading to Mountain Lion (10.8) and experiencing similar issues, adding FollowSymLinks to your {username}.conf file (in /etc/apache2/users/) did the trick for me. So the file looks like this:
<Directory "/Users/username/Sites/">
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
2 month old thread, but better late than never! On 10.6, I have my webserver documents folder set to:
owner:root
group:_www
permission:755
_www is the user that runs apache under Mac OS X. I then added an ACL to allow full permissions to the Administrators group. That way, I can still make any changes with my admin user without having to authenticate as root.
Also, when I want to allow the webserver to write to a folder, I can simply chmod to 775, leaving everyone other than root:_www with only read/execute permissions (excluding any ACLs that I have applied)
On my 10.6 system:
vhosts folder:
owner:root
group:wheel
permissions:755
vhost.conf files:
owner:root
group:wheel
permissions:644
The user owner for me is the admin user and the group is _www and works with permissions set to 775 for dir and for files 664
Catalina Update / Desktop Permissions
I come across this once a year on macOS. I usually use apache2 for hosting a
folder on my desktop.
If you are trying to give access to the desktop folder you need to follow this to allow httpd to have access to all folders: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/373139/353465
Open up terminal first and then go to directory of web server
cd /Library/WebServer/Documents
and then type this and what you will do is you will give read and write permission
sudo chmod -R o+w /Library/WebServer/Documents
This will surely work!