Mac apache localhost giving 403 Forbidden

Question

Im trying to set up my local environment on my new mac OSX 10.9. I know it has apache already installed, so i've been using that. No matter how I set up my httpd-vhosts.conf/hosts/httpd.conf files, I continuously get a 403 forbidden error when visiting localhost OR "test.com" on my browser. The error / files / other information is listed below.

This is the error I'm getting when visiting either web page

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

My /private/etc/hosts file

127.0.0.1       localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1             localhost
fe80::1%lo0     localhost

127.0.0.1       test.com
127.0.0.1       www.test.com

My /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf file

This file is in its original form besides the following changes:
Uncommented Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

My /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts file

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName localhost
    DocumentRoot /Library/WebServer/Documents/
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName test.com
        ServerAlias www.test.com
        DocumentRoot "/Users/[my_name]/Sites/test"

        <Directory "/Users/[my_name]/Sites/test">
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
                AllowOverride All
                Order allow,deny
                Allow from all
        </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Other notes

I've created a config file my user account in /private/etc/apache/users/
I've given that file read and write permissions to "everyone"
I've restarted apache after every save to any config file
I've reset the cache on my browser every time I make a change to these files
I have an index.html file set up in my /Users/[my_name]/Sites/test/ folder

When using the command sudo apachectl -t

Warning: DocumentRoot [/usr/\xe2\x80\x9c/Users/joshwoelfel/Sites/test\xe2\x80\x9d] does not exist
httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using Joshs-MacBook-Air.local for ServerName
Syntax OK

I don't know what to try at this point. I've spent several hours looking at tutorials and other questions people have posted. It looks like my files and permissions are correct!

Answer 1

I just resolved this issue. Try adding 'Require all granted' instead of 'Allow from all'.

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName test.com
    ServerAlias www.test.com
    DocumentRoot "/Users/[my_name]/Sites/test"

    <Directory "/Users/[my_name]/Sites/test">
            Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
            AllowOverride All
            Require all granted 
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Answer 2

when you set DocuemntRoot "/Users/xxx/xxx" on mac os, your must ensure your httpd User && Group have permission to read the directory.By default, /Users/xxx/xxx owner is root and group is admin, so you don't have the permission. If your directory group is wheel it maybe work.