This is the first time I'm setting up an apache web server, I'm doing this on my Mac with OS X Yosemite. For some reason I'm receiving 403 errors when I try to hit my user directory via the browser with the formate computerName.local. When I hit the default directory with that same format I get the "It works!" page, but when I try to hit my user directory it gives me the "Forbidden" error... If I hit it with localhost everything works fine, but I'm trying to hit it from my iPhone hence the localhost won't work from there...
I've tried every guide I could find, tried setting the vhosts configuration file (but when I do so the browser can't reach the folder even when trying localhost), I tried changing the httpd.conf file to have "Require all granted" on a new with the path to my user sites directory... Can anyone tell me if I'm doing something wrong? If you need I could upload my httpd.conf and httpd-vhosts.conf files (or any other related file that may need configuration).
Thanks!
Found the issue. It took me a while but it was really simple at the end. On my User conf file /private/etc/apache2/users/USERNAME.conf there was a line that was absolutely responsible for the behavior that from localhost everything worked fine but from computerName.local it wouldn't. This is what the file looked like:
<Directory "/Users/Santiago/Sites/">
AddLanguage en .en
LanguagePriority en fr de
ForceLanguagePriority Fallback
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from localhost
Require all granted
</Directory>
All I had to do was change that "Allow from localhost" to "Allow from all" and restart apache. Everything works now.
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I'm not using WAMP or MAMP, I'm just using the inbuilt web server on mac. I have all my websites developed on http://192.xxx.x.x/~username/Sites folder and need to access some of them in my iPhone.
I found my mac's ip address (192.xxx.x.x) and entered it on my iPhone and it's working fine. But when I enter http://192.xxx.x.x/~username/Sites it says,
Forbidden, you don't have permission to access this resource.
Is this something to do with Firewall ?
It might be because of permision issues,
You should check your etc/apache2/users there check username.conf.
If there is no username.conf , get your short username and create a file shortusername.conf.
Use whoami to get short username, e.g my username is San create San.conf at that location..
Use sudo nano shortusername.conf to edit file and add this bit
<Directory "/Users/username/Sites/">
AllowOverride All
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
Require all granted
</Directory>
Now restart your server by :
sudo apachectl restart
This worked for me...
So i have stuck on this thing since last week . i am new to web development , and wanted to learn php , as soon as i started i had to setup apache server , for root directory it works fine but for localhost/~username/ it can't connect to server "localhost".
here are the files i had been messing up
(sudo apachectl configtest : Syntax OK )
httpd-userdir.conf file
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3zmuc2jetpo3i0i/httpd-userdir.conf?dl=0
httpd.conf file
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vlrzqr95ge2qy3c/httpd.conf?dl=0
username.conf file
https://www.dropbox.com/s/f13cgfgfb56esi7/mfaizanulhaq.conf?dl=0
(OS X el Capitan
10.11.5 (15F34)
&
Server version: Apache/2.4.18 (Unix)
Server built: Feb 20 2016 20:03:19
)
If this is still relevant and you are fed up with trying to find a solution you can change Documents root folder to your user Sites folder. This will prevent everyone but you from accessing localhost from your machine, but it's a hotfix solution. I've had a deadline and I had to finish the site, so this worked for me.
Go to httpd.conf change
DocumentRoot "/Library/WebServer/Documents"
<Directory "/Library/WebServer/Documents">
to
DocumentRoot "/Users/username/Sites"
<Directory "/Users/username/Sites">
To look up your username in the terminal use whoami.
NOTE: Bear in mind you also need to change the following lines in httpd.conf it's located just below DocumentRoot within <Directory> tag you changed earlier.
Whatever it says in your file modify to this (that should be true for ALL configurations of the Apache2)
Options FollowSymLinks Multiviews
MultiviewsMatch Any
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
This is a really bad solution since your Users/username/Sites folder will be accessed directly when you type localhost in the browser, but when something goes wrong, or you've done something wrong this is the best solution so far especially if you are 100% certain you are not going to have more than 1 user access your localhost directory.
i hope no one faces this problem. In my case i had updated php to php 7 but in httpd.conf it was trying to load php 5 so by commenting out that line my problem was solved.
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 downloaded the Apache HTTP server for windows and installed it. I have created a test html file under C:/mobileTraining/core/workspace/TestProject
I then added a permissions directory tag in the httpd.conf file, so that it now looks like the following:
<Directory />
AllowOverride none
Require all denied
</Directory>
<Directory C:/mobileTraining/core/workspace>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
Alias /TestProject C:/mobileTraining/core/workspace/TestProject
I've tried this with and without the first Directory tag, which was there already.
When I then save these changes and go to http://localhost/TestProject/TestPage.html in my browser (I've tried Firefox and Chrome), I get a connection error. This is from Chrome:
This webpage is not available
Google Chrome's connection attempt to localhost was rejected. The website may be down, or your network may not be properly configured.
Error code: ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED
Is there something blindingly obvious in my set-up that I've missed?
Thanks
Try to access your site by including the port the default setup for this is 8080
http://localhost:8080/TestProject/TestPage.html
First, make sure you are able to access http://localhost/
Also, i suppose you have TestPage.html in C:/mobileTraining/core/workspace/TestProject
You are setting permissions for C:/mobileTraining/core/workspace ?
As mentioned in Example here . Try below.
Alias /TestProject "C:/mobileTraining/core/workspace/TestProject"
<Directory "C:/mobileTraining/core/workspace/TestProject">
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
Good Luck!
I was running with MAMP for a while but then got to thinking that it wouldn't hurt to get into the bones of Apache itself.
So the default options worked great for me, even enabled a couple of virtual hosts too and they work great. However, I can't get Apache to support my htaccess files.
This is my Apache config https://gist.github.com/1332527 with my virtual host config as well https://gist.github.com/1332542
My sites work at min.local/index.php/some-url for example but fail at min.local/some-url where I get a 404. I've read a number of blog posts about setting AllowOverride to All in httpd.conf but it hasn't made a difference.
My .htaccess file is fine, it works in production.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Steven
Also, make sure to look at your user-specific conf file, located at /etc/apache2/users/username.conf and set your AllowOverride there.
The settings there will override the defaults in httpd.conf
just set it to All or whatever you have in httpd
I suspect the AllowOverride None in the virtual host file is overriding the AllowOverride All in the main config file. Try changing it to All and see what happens.
I had exactly the same issue. In my vhost block I had to add
<Directory "{webroot path}">
AllowOverride all
Allow from all
</Directory>
On restarting apache (sudo apachectl restart) all was good.