Apache Localhost 403 Forbidden with macOS Sierra [closed]

Question

macOS Sierra update made my Apache's localhost and now is inaccessible. I can only access localhost/. But sub-folders under localhost/<other-directory>/ are not and a "403 forbidden access" error is shown.

Answer 1

Here's the steps I followed to fix this:

Go to /private/etc/apache2 Open httpd.conf.bak, copy the contents, overwrite httpd.conf with it then save

In httpd.conf, change

Options FollowSymLinks Multiviews 

to

Options FollowSymLinks Multiviews Indexes 

Change

DocumentRoot "/Users/username/Sites" <Directory "/Library/WebServer/Documents"> 

to

DocumentRoot "/Users/username/Sites" <Directory "/Users/username/Sites"> 

Then save

Check the /users/ directory and go to your *.conf file and check it is similar to below:

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

Then run sudo apachectl restart

That should then work :-)