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 have permission to access / on this server". The same thing occurs with any other sites I add to my hosts file.

I tried configuring user directories following help from this post. The guys on this MacRumors thread know there is an Apache issue, but didn't offer a lot of suggestions.

My directory permissions look like this

drwxr-xr-x  29 root             wheel  1054 Aug 11 07:30 / drwxr-xr-x   6 root             admin   204 Aug 11 07:29 /Users/ drwxr-xr-x+ 26 zachshallbetter  staff   884 Aug 11 11:57 /Users/zachshallbetter/  0: group:everyone deny delete drwxr-xr-x   5 zachshallbetter  staff   170 Aug 11 10:16 /Users/zachshallbetter/Sites 

Can anyone offer any suggestions or help? Here are links to my hosts and httpd.conf files and error logs for reference.

Answer 1

You do NOT want to open up the entirety of your hard drive to the web server process. In fact, lines 215-217 of httpd.conf say:

# Deny access to the entirety of your server's filesystem. You must # explicitly permit access to web content directories in other # <Directory> blocks below. 

Apache 2.4 (OSX 10.10 Yosemite) has a different structure from Apache 2.2 (OSX 10.9) for the Directory directive in Module mod_authz_core.

EDIT: If you are setting up Apache from the START, please follow this instruction set to setup apache and php on OSX 10.10 Yosemite.

Assuming you have mod_userdir.so enabled already, your problem is within your user .conf file (/etc/apache2/users/username.conf), edit (or add) the following.

Apache 2.2:

<Directory "/Users/jnovack/Sites/">   Options Indexes MultiViews   AllowOverride All   # OSX 10.9 / Apache 2.2   Order from deny, allow </Directory> 

Apache 2.4

<Directory "/Users/jnovack/Sites/">   Options Indexes MultiViews   AllowOverride All   # OSX 10.10 / Apache 2.4   Require all granted </Directory> 

Answer 2

Edit the file: /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